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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 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

Sarah Whitby

Among the many African American families that moved to Washington were the Whitbys; Sarah Whitby worked as a laundress. She had nine children, and although she was herself illiterate, all of her children could read.

Ellie Hanley

Irish murder victim

Abigail Gardner Sharp

Abigail (Abbie) Gardner was thirteen years old when the Wahpekute leader Inkpaduta led his band in a raid against her community in Spirit Lake, Iowa. Her captors took her across the tallgrass prairie and through the Pipestone Quarry before releasing her for a ransom in the Dakota Territory.

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.

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.