Toby Riddle

Toby Riddle was a Modoc woman who served as a translator for the US Army during the Modoc War of 1872 to 1873.

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Sonia Sanchez

American poet, writer, and teacher who played a pivotal role in the Black Arts Movement and authored more than a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children’s books.

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Marie Wilcox

The last native speaker of Wukchumni, a dialect of Tule-Kaweah, an indigenous language spoken by the Tule-Kaweah Yokuts of California. Her life’s work focused on preserving this endangered language.

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Ramona Bennett

American Puyallup leader and advocate whose indomitable spirit ignited the 1960s and 1970s Fish Wars in the US Pacific Northwest.

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Dr Susan La Flesche Picotte

Pioneering Native American doctor from the Omaha tribe. She made history as the first Indigenous woman to earn a medical degree, and she tirelessly campaigned for public health and land rights for the Omaha tribe.

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