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This is a list under development of {{strong|missing articles on women}} who are of {{strong|indigenous descent}} from {{em|around the world}} and who are notable for their work in various endeavors.

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See also

Angola

Australia

=A - M=

  • Mary Theresa Torres Barker, Aboriginal leader [http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0579b.htm][https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/tribute-to-broomes-forgotten-women-ng-ya-189770]
  • Louise Daniels Trawlwoolway, [https://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/7846403/recognition-for-north-west-artist-in-prestigious-national-art-prize/],[https://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2013/05/14/3758815.htm],[https://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/whats_on/exhibitions/current_upcoming/info/taypani_milaythina-tu_return_to_country/artists/louise_daniels]
  • Sandy Dann, radio broadcaster [http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0672b.htm]
  • Ken Sisters Collaborative, artists [https://www.art-almanac.com.au/tjala-arts-ken-sisters-collaborative-seven-sisters Art Almanc]
  • Karrabing Film Collective, artists [https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/film/karrabing-film-collective-saltwater-dreams Tate Gallery]

=N - Z=

  • Annie Rankine, community leader in South Australia [http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rankine-annie-isabel-11488 ADB]
  • Sally Riley, film & TV producer[http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0584b.htm]
  • Barbara Catherine Shaw, Aboriginal activist[http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0712b.htm]
  • Vai Stanton, Aboriginal welfare worker[http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0025b.htm]
  • Cheryl Taylor, Aboriginal academic and educator [http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0503b.htm]
  • Maggie Walter, Pairrebenne, sociologist/academic, [https://discover.utas.edu.au/Maggie.Walter], [https://anzsog.edu.au/about-us/contact-directory/maggie-walter/],[https://www.aboriginalheritage.tas.gov.au/Documents/4%20-%20Maggie%20Walter.pdf]
  • Mary Williams-Cooper, Aboriginal leader and kindergarten teacher [http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0475b.htm]
  • Edie Wright, Aboriginal education manager [http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0517b.htm]

Brazil

Canada

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  • Ellen Blais, Indigenous midwife, Oneida Nation of the Thames, Turtle Clan
  • Rachel Dennis, Nipissing First Nation midwife [http://ktigaaningmidwives.com/][http://anishinabeknews.ca/2017/07/14/babies-arriving-into-world-on-nipissing-first-nation/][http://anishinabeknews.ca/2017/03/03/baby-born-on-nipissing-first-nation-a-historic-birth/][https://iewirokwasheroes.weebly.com/2019-recipients.html][https://www.nugget.ca/2018/05/15/theres-a-growing-revival-of-indigenous-midwifery/wcm/528d5de2-c049-0f5e-57d2-72e6e1e4bb67][https://www.macleans.ca/society/life/how-indigenous-midwives-are-helping-women-reclaim-childbirth/]
  • Francis Dick Kwakwaka'wakw (Musqamakw Dzawadaenutw Band) artist, [https://www.cedarhilllonghouse.ca/artist/francis-dick]
  • Claire Dion-Fletcher, Indigenous Registered (Potawatomi-Lenape) midwife
  • Heather Heinrichs, Métis midwife [https://www.chatelaine.com/health/indigenous-midwives/]
  • Corinne Hunt Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwagiulth) artist [http://www.lattimergallery.com/collections/corrine-hunt], [http://www.mint.ca/store/mint/about-the-mint/-the-design-4500008#.WLsTAxCj_hN]
  • Autum Jules, (Tlingit), fashion designer [https://web.archive.org/web/20160911192601/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-first-nations-make-imaginenative-films-on-identity-1.2991352], [http://www.flare.com/fashion/10-designers-vancouver-indigenous-fashion-week/], [https://web.archive.org/web/20170802074903/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/fashion-and-beauty/fashion/behind-the-scenes-at-vancouvers-first-indigenous-focused-fashionweek/article35834083/], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180117213710/http://www.lasallecollegevancouver.com/events/vancouver-indigenous-fashion-week-2017]
  • Andréa Ledding [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/dominion-play-saskatoon-1.4355454][https://thestarphoenix.com/entertainment/local-arts/a-house-divided-poem-play-dominion-symbolizes-colonial-canada]
  • Alexis Macdonald Seto, Métis photographer and artist
  • Helen Oro (Pelican Lake) beadworker, accessory designer [https://web.archive.org/web/20180113184214/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/indigenous-designer-alberta-london-fashion-week-1.3966430], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180114041507/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/indigenous-fashion-designer-accessories-helen-oro-1.4474104], [https://web.archive.org/web/20170601144113/http://thestarphoenix.com:80/life/bridges/helen-oro-cutting-a-figure-with-confidence-in-fashion-world]
  • Jill Setah (Yunesit'in) fashion designer [https://web.archive.org/web/20171013021632/https://globalnews.ca/news/3782002/first-nations-fashion-designer-returns-to-okanagan-following-paris-runway-show/], [http://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/business_news/local_business/article_33583e94-1907-11e4-ab91-0017a43b2370.html], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180109121017/https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-09-20/these-photos-show-strength-and-beauty-aboriginal-cultures-canada], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180117214650/https://www.ashcroftcachecreekjournal.com/business/fashion-dream-coming-true/], [https://web.archive.org/web/20160208120519/http://www.castanet.net/news/West-Kelowna/149647/Designer-makes-it-to-L-A]
  • Patti Shaughnessy, actor and artist from Curve Lake First Nation [http://www.publicenergy.ca/OKW_website/biographies.htm] [http://www.kawarthanow.com/kawarthanowguide/2012/06/13/odemin-giizis-indigenous-arts-festival/] [http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/rez-sisters-greenland-1.3496726]

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  • Pauline Shirt Co-Founder, Wandering Spirit Survival School, Community Elder, George Brown [https://www.georgebrown.ca/current-students/services/indigenous-education-services/meet-the-team]

Cook Islands

Ecuador

  • Lucía Guillín, (Puruhá) fashion designer [https://web.archive.org/web/20151107222154/http://www.elcomercio.com:80/tendencias/moda-indigenas-vestimenta-cultura-chimborazo.html], [https://web.archive.org/web/20160904161708/http://www.extra.ec/actualidad/ecuador-interculturalidad-moda-diseno-puruha-NA640609], [https://web.archive.org/web/20170921222347/http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2017/07/17/espectaculos/a12n1esp]

Ghana

  • Nana Amba Eyiaba, [http://graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/46651-don-t-take-peaceful-environment-for-granted-french-envoy-cautions.html Queen of the Efutu and the Krontihene, spiritual leader]. Queen Mother.
  • Manye Esther, Krobo queenmother, founder of the Manyan Krobo Queen Mothers Association [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/v055/55.3.steegstra.html Project Muse]
  • Manye Makutu, Krobo leader, died in 1944 [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/v055/55.3.steegstra.html Project Muse]
  • Juliana Makutu Sakite, Krobo leader converted to Christianity. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/v055/55.3.steegstra.html Project Muse]
  • Dogkudome Tegzuylle, of Lyssah, [http://nyani.photoshelter.com/image/I0000yA0CS0ECdl4]
  • your redlink here

India

Indonesia

  • your redlink here

New Zealand

Niue

Papua New Guinea

Russia

Samoa

Scandinavia ([[Sami people|Sami]] women)

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Tonga

United States

  • {{cite book |ref=none |editor1-last=Bataille |editor1-first=Gretchen M. |editor2-last=Lisa |editor2-first=Laurie |title=Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary |edition=1st |date=1993 |publisher=Garland Publishing |location=New York, New York |isbn=0-8240-5267-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/nativeamericanwo00bata_0/page/n9/mode/1up}}
  • {{cite book |ref=none |editor1-last=Bataille |editor1-first=Gretchen M. |editor2-last=Lisa |editor2-first=Laurie |title=Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary |edition=2nd |date=2005 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |location=New York, New York |isbn=0-415-93020-0 |url=https://dl.epdf.pub/download/native-american-women-a-biographical-dictionary-5ea7a83151463.html?hash=c3763ba5ba3069b9877744f7de294bde&captcha=44d0f7e85b2be24e63d7d2734ef09110}}

=A - L=

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  • Pilar Agoyo (Ohkay Owingeh/Cochiti Pueblo/Kewa Pueblo) fashion designer [http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/194057], [http://www.santafenewmexican.com/magazines/native-high-fashion-then-now-and-into-the-future/article_fb1002ae-007c-11e3-bbc6-0019bb30f31a.html], [https://mic.com/articles/131460/native-american-designers-are-behind-more-clothes-than-you-may-realize#.0TvO80lRA], [http://browndigital.bpc.com/article/Native+Couture/1124652/119706/article.html]
  • Virginia Yazzie Ballenger (Navajo), fashion designer [http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/194057], [https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=i3AuDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA122&pg=PA122#v=onepage&q&f=false], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16618083/arizona_republic/], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16618131/albuquerque_journal/]
  • Ella Besaw (Stockbridge-Munsee) 1902-1990, healer has a medical center named after her.[http://wigenweb.org/shawano/CEM/SIBG/stockbridge_burial_grounds.html], [https://web.archive.org/web/20230805173541/https://www.facebook.com/ArvidE.MillerMemorialLibraryMuseum/photos/magnificent-mohicansella-besaw-traditional-medicine-woman-by-yvette-maloneella-w/3347267028656814/?locale=es_LA] (source Stockbridge Munsee Cultural Affairs is reliable, platform is not),[https://thenorthwestern.newspapers.com/article/45431383/posted-ella-besaw/], [https://www.mohican.com/herbalist-and-herbalism/],[https://thenorthwestern.newspapers.com/article/the-oshkosh-northwestern-stockbridge-mun/129478718/], [https://archive.org/details/algonquianofnewy0000oest/page/54/mode/1up?q=%22Ella+Besaw%22], [https://archive.org/details/greenpharmacyhis0000vand/page/325/mode/1up?q=%22Ella+Besaw%22], [https://www.mohican.com/mt-content/uploads/2015/11/04-01-15.pdf]
  • Arlene Bowman (Navajo [Diné]) filmmaker from Phoenix, [http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/makers/fm24.shtml]
  • Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (redirect to novel) (Eastern Band Cherokee), novelist [https://www.muw.edu/welty/program/2021-authors/7516-annette-saunooke-clapsaddle]
  • RoseMary Diaz (Santa Clara Pueblo), poet, fashion designer, author [http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/194057], [https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=btMDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA110&ots=NtgyFyr2fq&dq=RoseMarie%20Diaz%2C%20santa%20clara%20pueblo&pg=PA110#v=onepage&q=RoseMarie%20Diaz&f=false], [http://www.santafenewmexican.com/magazines/bienvenidos_2014/avanyu-spirit-of-water-in-pueblo-life-and-art/article_da0e9cb8-d4b2-11e3-9331-0017a43b2370.html]
  • Virginia Duran (Picuris Pueblo, 1904-1998), micaceous potter [http://www.nmwomensforum.com/images/NewMexicoHistoricWomenMarkers.pdf]
  • Jennifer K. Falcon (Fort Peck Assiniboine Sioux Tribe), Author and civil rights activist [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/castro-campaign-press-release-indigenous-leaders-endorse-secretary-castro-ahead-native]
  • Jeanette Ferrara, Isleta Pueblo fashion designer [http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/194057], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16596646/albuquerque_journal/] and [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16596685/albuquerque_journal/], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16596812/albuquerque_journal/]
  • Connie Gaussoin (Navajo/Picuris Pueblo) jeweler, fashion designer [https://web.archive.org/web/20180117175051/http://www.ornamentmagazine.org/blog/the-tsosie-gaussoin-family-volume-395], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180117175054/http://www.taosnews.com/stories/never-feel-intimidated,43670]
  • Melissa Henry, Navajo artist and filmmaker [https://www.visionmakermedia.org/bios/melissa-henry]
  • Marie Anne Jaimes-Guerrero (Mestiza{{cite web |title=MA Jaimes Guerrero |url=https://wgsdept.sfsu.edu/ma-jaimes-guerrero |website=San Francisco State University |access-date=27 January 2022}}), feminist. [https://books.google.com/books?id=kpNarH7t9CkC&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=Thelma+Dailey-Stout&source=bl&ots=WozBqaVFk4&sig=aFJyA2ih0fBzljB31HYb0g7R1QU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_5qr3uLHSAhUJ92MKHTjHAa4Q6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q&f=false]
  • Patta PT Joest (Choctaw Nation), fashion designer [http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/194057], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16452797/the_santa_fe_new_mexican/] and [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16452616/the_santa_fe_new_mexican/], [http://newsok.com/article/2432655], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180116233204/http://newsok.com/article/2432655]

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  • Ina McNeil (Hunkpapa Lakota) dollmaker [www.nytimes.com/.../through-dolls-and-quilts-keeping-alive-legacy-of-the-indians.html New York Times]
  • Michelle Tsosie Naranjo/Michelle Tsosie Sisneros (Santa Clara Pueblo-Navajo/Laguna Pueblo) artist, [http://articles.latimes.com/1989-06-30/entertainment/ca-2768_1_traditional-native-american-forms], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16599125/the_santa_fe_reporter/] and [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16599150/the_santa_fe_reporter/], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180116231802/https://www.dcourier.com/news/2011/jul/09/artists-sculpt-paint-weave-native-american-cultur/], [https://web.archive.org/web/20170607114503/http://www.southwestart.com/native-american-arts/michelle_tsosie_sisneros_navajo_painter_pueblo_grand_indian_market_poster_acrylic_acrylic_paintingsblue_sage_gallery_scottsdale_arizona_iaia_museum_shop_susans_christmas_shop_santa_fenew_mexico_heard_], [https://www.si.edu/object/NMAI_280699]
  • Chrissie Oleman, Nisga'a/St'at'imc Nation, featherwork and beadwork, [http://roundhouse.ca/exhibiting-the-heart-of-women/] (not a lot of sources yet, may be TOO SOON)

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=S - Z=

File:Jenny Williams.jpeg at the Smithsonian.]]

  • Delsie Albert Selam, Yakama, born 1923, Basket weaver, preserving the Sahptin language, [http://www.burkemuseum.org/static/baskets/artists/plateau.html]
  • Maya Stewart (designer) (born 1979) (Chickasaw/Muscogee/Choctaw) accessory designer [https://web.archive.org/web/20180117185008/http://newsok.com/article/3443592], [http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/style/state-designer-shows-native-flair-in-ny/article_91fc8300-64ec-5db6-83fb-804bd98db4f1.html], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180117185408/http://www.sfreporter.com/arts/bedhead/2017/08/15/indian-market-fashion-roundup/], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180117185411/https://www.chickasaw.tv/profiles/maya-stewart-profile?ref=durl], [https://web.archive.org/web/20170216045209/http://designlifenetwork.com/native-fashion-now-opens-virtual-tour/]
  • Pearl Sunrise (Navajo), weaver [http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/194057], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16618274/the_santa_fe_new_mexican/], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16618348/the_santa_fe_new_mexican/], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16618408/albuquerque_journal/] and [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16618458/albuquerque_journal/]
  • Brooke Swaney, Blackfeet/Salish filmmaker [www.imdb.com/name/nm3025423/]
  • Juanita T. Toledo, Pha-wa-luh-luh (Jemez Pueblo, 1914-1999), Pecos, helped revive Pecos style pottery in New Mexico, [http://www.nmwomensforum.com/images/NewMexicoHistoricWomenMarkers.pdf]
  • Feliciana Tapia Viarrial (1904-1988), Pojoaque Pueblo matriarch, [http://www.nmwomensforum.com/images/NewMexicoHistoricWomenMarkers.pdf]
  • Carol Welch (d. 2022, daughter of Selma Walker, Yankton Sioux Tribe) director of the Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio from 1996-2011[https://web.archive.org/web/20230811013641/https://www.naicco.com/], [https://www.newspapers.com/article/chillicothe-gazette-woods-elizabeth-fe/129830143/], [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-newark-advocate-shiels-richard-dak/129829831/], [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-newark-advocate-shiels-mark-americ/129828046/]
  • Jenny Williams (artist) Nez Perce weaver, may be WP:TOOSOON

=Redlinked entries in [[List of Native American politicians]]=

  1. Grace A. Johnson
  2. Eileen Panigeo MacLean – expand stub
  3. Roxanne Murphy
  4. Irene Nicholia
  5. Anatasia Pittman
  6. April J. Silversmith

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