Alice Piper
Alice Piper, a 15-year-old Paiute student, made history in 1924 by successfully suing the Big Pine School District to integrate their classrooms and allow Indigenous students to attend their newly built school.
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Te Puea Hērangi
Waikato woman of mana and Kīngitanga leader
Heke Boyd
Maori leader and interpreter
Rāhui Te Kiri Tenetahi
Ngāti Wai and Ngāti Whatua woman of mana, ship owner and land claimant
Piipi Cummins
Maori woman of mana, great determination and forceful character
Ellen Ellis
New Zealand feminist and writer
Rachael Zister
New Zealand Ngāi Tai and Ngāti Pāoa woman of mana, secretary, community leader
Dora Mayer
Self-taught researcher, writer, sociologist, journalist, social activist.
Kiti Karaka Rīwai
New Zealand Maori leader
Dolores Cacuango
Pioneering advocate for indigenous and farmer rights in Ecuador, who played a key role in the early Ecuadorian feminist movement from the 1930s to the 1960s.