Nonhelema
Shawnee warrior and leader
Shawnee warrior and leader
1800s Native American war chief of the Blackfeet tribe.
Two-spirited Gros Ventres leader of the 1800s
Diplomat and a Native Americans rights advocate, she is the only known woman to ever be allowed to sit on a Ute tribal council.
Elsie Knott was the first Anishinaabe Kwe O’gimaa (first woman to serve as chief of a First Nation in Canada).
The only known female chief of the Hocąk or Winnebago nation
Leader of the Pamunkey people in colonised Virginia in the 1600s
She became saunkskwa, or female sachem, of the Narangasset and Niantic peoples in 1657
Alliquippa was a prominent leader of the Seneca nation for at least a decade before her death in December 1754.
Awashonks was a sachem, or chief, of the Sakonnet people in present-day Rhode Island, North America. She was not born into this royal role but had proved herself as a powerful leader.