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Vai Stanton

Aboriginal Australian welfare worker and elder of Kungarakany and Gurindji descent

Dr LaNada War Jack

LaNada War Jack is an indigenous activist, who since childhood, has fought to preserve Native American identity and tribal rights.

Pat Turner

Aboriginal Australian feminist and indigenous rights activist

Nanye-hi

Cherokee Beloved Woman and political leader

Chipeta

Diplomat and a Native Americans rights advocate, she is the only known woman to ever be allowed to sit on a Ute tribal council.

Annie Dodge Wauneka

Navajo leader and activist

Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie was a Ngāi Tahu (or Kāi Tahu) leader and woman of mana, and a prominent activist in the fields of Māori welfare and health from the 1970s to the 1990s. She was a long-serving member and president of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, and an acclaimed researcher in the area of Māori women’s health. She also served on the Human Rights Commission and in a wide variety of other public positions. An accomplished actor, singer and orator, she also composed waiata and poetry.

Alice Cunningham Fletcher

American ethnologist, widely known in scientific circles as a worker for Native Americans.

Barbara Shaw

She rose through the ranks of the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress to become its Deputy Director. In addition she has held executive positions on the Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, Tangentyere Council and the Joint Aboriginal Management Information Services. She was involved with the development of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association.

Anna Fellowes Vroland

Passionate about women’s rights and the cause of peace, Vroland was also a humanitarian with strong views on the treatment of Australia’s Aboriginal population; she became one of Victoria’s leading campaigners for Aboriginal rights.