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Teha‘apapa was queen regnant of Huahine, in what is now French Polynesia.

Queen regnant of Raiatea and Tahaa in the 1800s

Tehaapapa III was queen of Huahine, an island in the Pacific Ocean which was annexed by France in 1895.

In July 1860, at the age of 19, Teri’i-maeva-rua became queen of Bora Bora after her step-father, King Tapoa II, died.

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

Neris Uriana was appointed the first female chief of the Wayuu tribe in La Guajira, Colombia, in 2005.

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.

Queen of Tikal in the early 500s