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TNB->Mohegan Indians: 106-Year-Old Mohegan Medicine Woman Dies
Posted on Friday, November 04 @ 23:59:23 PST (7700 reads)

Gladys Tantaquidgeon, the Mohegan Indian Tribe's venerable medicine woman and a nationally known expert on ancient Indian practices, died Tuesday morning. She was 106.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Mary Brave Bird, Lakota Sioux (1956-?)
Posted on Monday, April 18 @ 01:44:52 PDT (14008 reads)

Mary Brave Bird dictated her life story in the two books Lakota Woman and Ohitika Woman to Richard Erdoes, a photographer and illustrator who himself became involved in political activism through having taped and transcribed her story. In these two books, written 15 years apart, Brave Bird told how the American Indian Movement (AIM) gave meaning to her life. Lakota Woman, written under the name Mary Crow Dog, portrays her life from her birth to 1977, and Ohitika Woman written under her current name of Mary Brave Bird, covers events up to 1992 and adds new details to the earlier history.

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TNB->Iroquois: Kateri Tekakwitha, Mohawk (1656-1680)
Posted on Monday, April 18 @ 01:37:37 PDT (11772 reads)

Tegaquitha, "Lily of the Mohawks," as she was popularly known, was the first recorded Native American Roman Catholic nun in North American.

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TNB->Powhatan: Queen Anne, Pamunkey(ca. 1650-ca. 1725)
Posted on Monday, April 18 @ 01:34:52 PDT (7183 reads)

The widow of Totopotomoi, the Pamunkey chief, Queen Anne became the chief of the tribe following the death of her husband during the battle in which he supported the English against other Indian warriors. Due to her authoritative position, she was always called "Queen Anne" by the colonists.

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TNB->Pueblo Indians: Tonita Pena (Tonita Vigil), San Ildefonso Peublo (1895-1949)
Posted on Monday, April 18 @ 01:32:37 PDT (9830 reads)

Quah Ah (White Coral Beads) was the first Pueblo woman artist to throw off the traditional restrictions that were usually imposed upon women tin Pueblo culture, and paint just as freely as her esthetic sensitivity directed. She was born Tonita Vigil, at San Ildefonso Peublo, New Mexico on June 13, 1895, the daughter of Ascension Vigil and Natividad Pena. Following the death of her mother, she was brought up by her aunt, Martina Vigil, of Cochiti, who saw to her education at the San Ildefonso Pueblo and then at St. Catherine's in Santa Fe. Her early life was much the same as any Pueblo child.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Wilma Mankiller, Cherokee (1945-?)
Posted on Monday, April 18 @ 01:27:25 PDT (10869 reads)

Wilma Pearl Mankiller was both the first woman deputy chief and the first woman principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.

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FN->Inuit: Kenojuak (Ashevak) Inuit artist (1927-?)
Posted on Monday, April 18 @ 01:17:47 PDT (10152 reads)

Kenojuak (Ashevak) is generally regarded as Canada's foremost Inuit artist.

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TNB->Winnebago Tribe: Mountain Wolf Woman (Kéhachiwinga), Winnebago (1884-1960)
Posted on Monday, April 18 @ 01:04:19 PDT (9881 reads)

Kéhachiwinga, "Wolf's Mountain Home Maker," was a Winnebago woman who was the subject of a remarkable autobiography account written down by Nancy Lurie, in 1958, and subsequently published in book form as Mountain Wolf Woman-a notable contribution to the literature of culture change and personality.

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TNB->Osage: Maria Tallchief, Osage (1925- )
Posted on Monday, April 18 @ 00:57:06 PDT (9444 reads)

Maria Tallchief became the first American trained ballerina of international importance.

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TNB->Powhatan: Pocahontas, Pamunkey(1595?-1617)
Posted on Monday, April 18 @ 00:42:26 PDT (5850 reads)

From Algonquin pocahantesu, "She is Playful", although another translation suggests "Bright Stream Between Two Hills". Her Pamunkey name was Mataoaka (also spelled Matoax and Matowaka), "She Plays with Things"; both names apparently referring to her vivacious disposition.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Susan La Flesche, Sioux (1865-1915)
Posted on Monday, April 18 @ 00:30:21 PDT (3211 reads)

Susan La Flesche was the first female Indian physician.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Ella Carla Deloria (Anpetu Wastewin), Yankton Sioux (1888-1971)
Posted on Monday, April 18 @ 00:27:03 PDT (3509 reads)

Anpetu Wastewin, from anpetu "day," waste "good," win "woman," was a Yankton Sioux scholar, interpreter, and lecturer who became a nationally famous linguist and ethnologist. She was born January 3, 1888 at Wakpala, South Dakota, the daughter of Reverend and Mrs. Philip Deloria (Tipi Sapa).

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TNB->Mission Indians: Wawa Calac Chaw (Wa-Wa-Chaw),Rincon division of the Luiseno tribe (1888-1972)
Posted on Monday, April 18 @ 00:18:19 PDT (3605 reads)

Wawa Calac Chaw, "Keep From the Water," was a writer, artist, and lecturer on Indian and feminist matters. She was born on December 25, 1888 at Valley Center in the Tule River area of California. She was a member of the Rincon division of the Luiseno tribe, and was taken at infancy to protect her health by Dr. Cornelius Duggan and his sister Mary Duggan, both of New York, and raised as their own child.

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TNB->Chippewa Indian: Karen Louise Erdrich, Chippewa (1954-?)
Posted on Monday, April 18 @ 00:12:10 PDT (2974 reads)

Louise Erdrich is known for her moving and often humorous portrayals of Chippewa life in North Dakota in poetry and prose. In her verse and in novels such as Love Medicine, Tracks, The Bingo Palace, and The Beet Queen, she draws on her years in North Dakota and on her German and Chippewa heritage to portray the great endurance of women and Native Americans in twentieth-century America. She has won an array of awards and substantial recognition for her novels, as well as for her short stories, poetry, and essays.

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TNB->Cherokee Indian: Nancy Ward, (Nanye-hi) Cherokee (ca. 1738-ca. 1824)
Posted on Monday, April 18 @ 00:06:31 PDT (6194 reads)

From the English rendition of Nanye-hi, "One Who Goes About," named from the mythological Spirit People, Nancy Ward was a major Cherokee figure of the Southern frontier who became an almost legendary person due largely to her queenly manner and resolute personality. Nanye-hi was born into the Wolf clan about 1738 at Chota, near Fort Loudon, Tennessee. Her father was Fivekiller, a Cherokee-Delaware man, and her mother was Tame Deer (sometimes recorded as Tame Doe) the sister of Attakullakulla, known popularly as Catherine.

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