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This Native American Heritage Month, How Many Notable Native Women Can You Name?
Besides, you know, Sacajawea and Pocahontas?
Thank you, Debbie Walker, for reminding us to inform ourselves and celebrate these women and their ground-breaking contributions.
Debbie writes about Buffalo Calf Road Woman, Wilma Mankiller, and prima ballerina, Maria Tallchief in her post. Over the last few years, we’ve written about other native sheroes including Winona LaDuke and Grace Thorpe.
Today, I’m sharing three more sisters’ stories so we can all learn about and appreciate them.
‘Barely out of Savagery?’
It’s not unusual to move from a small town to a big city to give children more opportunities for a better life. Especially back in the 1940s. That’s what Alaskan Tlingit Native Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich (1911–1958) and her family did. They moved from Klawock, Alaska to Juneau, the capital.
Indigenous people were not welcome there, according to Indian Country Today. Unable to enroll their children in public school, or buy a home in a decent neighborhood…
