Lila Greengrass Blackdeer
Lila Greengrass Blackdeer first learned black ash basketmaking to help supply her family’s roadside basket stand on Highway 12 near her hometown.
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Lilian Snooks
Lillian Bernice Snooks was at the forefront of the late-twentieth century campaign to preserve Atsugewi culture and traditions.
Namahoyke Curtis
Namahyoke Curtis, known as Namah, was a prominent African American nurse in late-19th-century Washington, D.C. During the Spanish-American War (1898), the Surgeon General assigned her to recruit other Black women to serve as U.S. Army contract nurses.
Julia Parker
Julia Parker spent most of her years living and working in Yosemite Village in California.
Karen Ann Hoffman
Karen Ann Hoffman has been beading peace, beauty, and meaning through her Haudenosaunee Raised Beadwork since the 1990s.
Kelly Church
Native American basketmaker
Eva Mirabal
Entitled G.I. Gertie, her comic strips appeared in a Women’s Army Corps (WAC) publication and featured the hijinks of a young woman soldier.
Annie Klaney
Chilkat blanket weaver
Pablita Velarde
Prominent Native American painter
Norma Jean Serena
Serena, a Native American woman, filed a civil lawsuit in 1974 seeking damages for violations of her constitutional rights to procreate and bear children