Piipi Cummins
Maori woman of mana, great determination and forceful character
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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.
Maata Te Taiawatea Rangitūkehu
Tūhourangi and Ngāti Awa woman of mana
Ramona Bennett
American Puyallup leader and advocate whose indomitable spirit ignited the 1960s and 1970s Fish Wars in the US Pacific Northwest.
Dr Susan La Flesche Picotte
Pioneering Native American doctor from the Omaha tribe. She made history as the first Indigenous woman to earn a medical degree, and she tirelessly campaigned for public health and land rights for the Omaha tribe.
Myrna Mack
Myrna Mack Chang was a respected Guatemalan anthropologist who was stabbed to death in 1990 by members of the Guatemalan military due to her criticism of the government’s treatment of the indigenous Maya and human rights abuses.