A Northern Paiute leader, negotiator, lecturer, activist, social reformer, and writer. The first Native American woman to publish a book. Read more...

A Native American guide and interpreter. The only woman on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Pacific Ocean. Sacagawea Read more...

A Native-American woman of the Powhatan tribe who assisted the early European settlers during their first years in Virginia and Read more...

A Native American tribal leader, served as president of the Yavapai-Prescott Tribe. Patricia Ann Vaughn was born in Holbrook, Arizona. Read more...

Episcopal priest, social entrepreneur, author, and speaker, the founder and president of Thistle Farms. Born in Connecticut and moved to Read more...

A lawyer, writer, educator, civil and women’s rights activist, and the first African-American woman to be ordained as an Episcopal Read more...

An Italian-American Roman Catholic nun, the founder of the female religious congregation Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Read more...

A missionary and educator, the first white woman to cross the Continental Divide of the Americas, considered as the founding Read more...

A spiritual leader and author, famous for establishing the Christian Science Movement. Mary Baker Eddy was 44 years old when Read more...

One of the first female religious leaders in colonial Massachusetts, and one of the founders of the Rhode Island Colony. Read more...