Presidents Díaz and later Huerta often imprisoned Dolores Jiménez y Muro, a socialist and political activist from Aguascalientes, for her work on many leftist journals, including La Mujer Mexicana, where she was a member of the editorial staff.
Winifred Bartlett served as a driving force for the establishment of Pipestone National Monument.
Elected chair of the Duwamish since 1975
Pat Bellanger was an Ojibwe activist and a cofounder of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who spent over fifty years fighting for Indigenous rights on a national and local level.
For more than seventy years, the Minnesota-based writer and activist Meridel Le Sueur was a voice for oppressed peoples worldwide. Beginning in the 1920s, she championed the struggles of workers against the capitalist economy, the efforts of women to find their voices and their power, the rights of American Indians to their lands and their cultures, and environmentalist causes.
Australian Indigenous rights activist
Rosalie Fish is a Native American woman who fights for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.
When she was found guilty of murdering her attacker and known predator in 1972, she was convicted by an all-white jury and became a symbol of women’s self-defense
Iñupiaq activist who advocated for the passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA).
Colleen Echohawk is a community leader,who has dedicated her career to serve Indigenous people in Seattle, Washington.