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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Bertha Parker Pallan
Pioneering Native American archaeologist known for her work at the Southwest Museum
Mabel Fairbanks
Mabel Fairbanks was a pioneering American figure skater and coach known for breaking racial barriers in the sport.
Dr LaNada War Jack
LaNada War Jack is an indigenous activist, who since childhood, has fought to preserve Native American identity and tribal rights.
Nanye-hi
Cherokee Beloved Woman and political leader
Nonhelema
Shawnee warrior and leader
Running Eagle
1800s Native American war chief of the Blackfeet tribe.
Bíawacheeitchish
Two-spirited Gros Ventres leader of the 1800s
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).