Mikak
1700s Inuk woman who travelled to England against her will and became an key figure in diplomatic relations between European traders and Indigenous peoples.
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Shaaw Tláa
Tagish First Nation woman who was one of the party that first found gold in the Klondike River in 1896, and is sometimes credited with being the person who made the actual discovery.
Kate Camden
A Native American woman, possibly Wintu, known as Kate Camden lived and worked in the Camden household in Whiskeytown, California, during the Gold Rush.
Piu-uina
Piu-uina exemplifies the ways Indigenous women navigated the mission system as they lived their lives.
Kilakotah Labonté
The story of Kilakotah is not just the story of one woman, but the story of three sisters.
Zaida
1000s Moorish princess
Annie Chaffey
Annie and Henry Chaffey were voluntary exiles from ordinary New Zealand society. They became legendary figures to the trampers, geologists, packmen, hunters and miners who encountered them in the mountains of north-west Nelson.
Louisa Coppin
Irish girl who died as a child and was later seen as a ghost
Nuala O’Donnell
Member of the O’Donnell dynasty in Ireland who took part in the 1607 Flight of the Earls
Mary Jemison
American frontierswoman