Tag: Spiritual Leader

A Northern Paiute leader, negotiator, lecturer, activist, social reformer, and writer. The first Native American woman to publish a book.
Category: Religion & Ethnic Culture, Academy & Education, Literature & Poetry.

A Native American guide and interpreter. The only woman on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Pacific Ocean.
Category: Religion & Ethnic Culture.

A Native-American woman of the Powhatan tribe who assisted the early European settlers during their first years in Virginia and fostered peace by marrying an English colonist.
Category: Religion & Ethnic Culture.

A Native American tribal leader, served as president of the Yavapai-Prescott Tribe.
Category: Politics & Leaders.

Episcopal priest, social entrepreneur, author, and speaker, the founder and president of Thistle Farms.
Category: Religion & Ethnic Culture, Activism & Feminism.

A lawyer, writer, educator, civil and women’s rights activist, and the first African-American woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest. Considered as one of the first transgender figures in US history.
Category: Law, Activism & Feminism, Academy & Education, Religion & Ethnic Culture.

An Italian-American Roman Catholic nun, the founder of the female religious congregation Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the first US citizen to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
Category: Religion & Ethnic Culture.

A missionary and educator, the first white woman to cross the Continental Divide of the Americas, considered as the founding mother of the state of Idaho.
Category: Religion & Ethnic Culture, Academy & Education.

A spiritual leader and author, famous for establishing the Christian Science Movement.
Category: Religion & Ethnic Culture, Health, Science & Technology.

One of the first female religious leaders in colonial Massachusetts, and one of the founders of the Rhode Island Colony.
Category: Religion & Ethnic Culture.