Zipporah
While residing at the Three Cranes Tavern from 1757 to 1775, Zipporah an enslaved Indigenous woman, would have cooked, cleaned and served the patrons at the Tavern.
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Apolinaria Lorenzana
One of very few women in California to receive a land grant in her own name in the early 1800s
Kate Borst
Kate Kanim Borst was a Native American woman who witnessed the transformation of Snoqualmie Valley from prairies and Indian encampments to the beginnings of suburbia.
María Feliciana Arballo
María Feliciana Arballo, a 25-year-old widow of Afro-Latina descent with two small children, was one of about forty women in the Anza expedition when it began its colonizing journey from Sonora, Mexico to Alta California (upper California) in 1775.
Priscilla Maunders Kirk
Oral history of an African American Seattleite
Dorothy Almonjuela
Oral history: Growing Up Squamish
Charley Parkhurst
Called the “best whip in California,” Charley Parkhurst was a legendary six-horse stagecoach driver during California’s Gold Rush.
Pelagie Faribault
Pelagie Faribault was a métis (Native and European) woman who received Wita Tanka (Big Island, also called Pike Island) from her Dakota kin as part of an 1820 treaty with the United States. The Faribault family had influence among their Dakota relatives, and Pelagie in particular was known for her acts of generosity.
Mary Metesh Plutt
Yugoslavian migrant to the United States at the start of the 1900s
Margaret McKenzie
New Zealand settler