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Zipporah

While residing at the Three Cranes Tavern from 1757 to 1775, Zipporah an enslaved Indigenous woman, would have cooked, cleaned and served the patrons at the Tavern.

June Townsend Gentry

June Townsend Gentry (Yuchi/Choctaw) served in the US Coast Guard during World War II, one of the 800 Native American women to join the US military.

Christina McDonald Williams

American businesswoman and translator

Marya D Moses

Pioneering female commercial fisherwoman working from the Tulalip Indian Reservation in Snohomish County

Part Odawa and part French, the highly respected and traditionally skilled Marie “Mo-nee” Bailly experienced shifting control over the Northwest Territory and the detrimental effects of manifest destiny on Indigenous American peoples.

Claudia Kauffman

Claudia Kauffman was the first woman Native American elected to the Washington State Senate.

Kate Borst

Kate Kanim Borst was a Native American woman who witnessed the transformation of Snoqualmie Valley from prairies and Indian encampments to the beginnings of suburbia.

Harriette Shelton Williams Dover

Native American activist who helped revive traditional dances, the Lushootseed language, and tribal appreciation for a proud past and was the second female elected to the Tulalip Tribes’ Board of Directors and first Tribal Council Chairwoman