Bíawacheeitchish
Two-spirited Gros Ventres leader of the 1800s
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Chipeta
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
Elsie Knott was the first Anishinaabe Kwe O’gimaa (first woman to serve as chief of a First Nation in Canada).
Glory of the Morning
The only known female chief of the Hocąk or Winnebago nation
Cockacoeske
Leader of the Pamunkey people in colonised Virginia in the 1600s
Quaiapen
She became saunkskwa, or female sachem, of the Narangasset and Niantic peoples in 1657
Alliquippa
Alliquippa was a prominent leader of the Seneca nation for at least a decade before her death in December 1754.
Awashonks
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.
RoseAnne Archibald
National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, which represents 634 First Nations with 900,000 members. She was elected on 8 July 2021 and is the first woman to hold the position.
Weetamoo
Sunksqua (chief) of the Native American Pocasset tribe.