Queen Anne (ca. 1650 - ca. 1715) became the chief of the Pamunkey tribe when her aunt Cockacoeske died. Colonial Governor William Berkeley requested that Anne furnish warriors to the colonists during Bacon's Rebellion, but she refused on the grounds that her tribe had been neglected by the colonists for twenty years. She eventually relented when the colonists promised better treatment for her people. When Anne's village was attacked she barely escaped with her life, …

SPC Lori Ann Piestewa (December 14, 1979-March 23, 2003) was a U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps soldier killed during the same Iraqi Army attack in which her friend Jessica Lynch was injured. A member of the Hopi tribe, Piestewa was the first woman killed in the 2003 Iraq war and is the first Native American woman to die in combat while serving with the U.S. military.

Buffalo Calf Road Woman was a Northern Cheyenne woman who was the sister of a male Native American fighter who was involved in the Battle of Rosebud. The battle had been going poorly, and the Cheyenne and Sioux, who were allied under the leadership of Crazy Horse, had been retreating, leaving her wounded brother, Chief Comes in Sight, on the battlefield, when she suddenly rode out into the battlefield at full speed and grabbed her brother, carrying him to safety.

Dahteste was a Chiricahua Apache woman. Despite being married with children, she took part in raiding parties with her husband. She was a compatriot of Geronimo, and was instrumental in negotiating his surrender to the U.S. Cavalry. She spent 8 years in a Florida prison, and was later shipped to a military prison in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Nineteen years later she was released and lived out the rest of her life on the Mescalero Apache Reservation.

Mary Jemison was an American frontierswoman and an adopted [Seneca Nation|Seneca]. Mary Jemison was born to Thomas and Jane Jemison aboard the ship "William and Mary" in the fall of 1743 while en route from Northern Ireland to America. Upon their arrival in America, the couple and their new child joined other Scots-Irish immigrants and headed west from Philadelphia, …

Gouyen (an Anglicization of Mescalero Góyą́ń "the one who is wise"), was a 19th century Mescalero Apache woman. She tracked down a Comanche chief who scalped her husband, tracking him to his camp. She lured him into the bushes, and attacked him, biting him in throat. When he passed out from blood loss, she stabbed him in the heart with his own knife, stripped him of his clothing, stole his warhorse and rode triumphantly back to her camp.

Pine Leaf was a woman of the Crow tribe who counted coup in the early 19th century. James Pierson Beckwourth describes her in his autobiography. She had several female wives. She was considered Two spirited.

Lozen (c. 1840-1887?) was the sister of the Chihenne-Chiricahua Apache chief, Victorio (akas: Bidu-ya; Beduiat). She was born into the Chihenne band during the late 1840's. She was a skilled warrior and a prophet. According to the legends she was able to use her powers (Diya) and (Inda-ce-ho-ndi = "Enemies-Against-Power") in battle, to learn the movements of the enemy. Victorio is quoted as saying "Lozen is my right hand... strong as a man, …

Weetamoo (1635 - 1676) (also referred to as Weetamoe) was a Pocasset Wampanoag Native American woman who was born circa 1635 in Mettapoiset, village of the Pokanoket, and died at Taunton River in 1676. She was the wife of Wamsutta, the eldest son of Massasoit, whose participated in the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims. After Massasoit died, Wamsutta became Chief of the Wampanoag tribe. The Wampanoag allied with the English against the Narragansett tribe, …

Chief Earth Woman was a nineteenth century Ojibwa. She claimed that she had gained supernatural powers from a dream, and for this reason, accompanied the men on the warpath.

Cockacoeske's husband/boyfriend was first married to Unity Croshaw, an independent minded woman who left him for his adultery, and some of whose descendants were the Dandridges, related to Martha Washington. Sporadic raids by Native Americans on the colony's frontier led Nathaniel Bacon to lead a popular uprising. The attackers had been the Doeg and Susquehannock Tribes but instead of attacking them, Bacon's men attacked the peaceful Pamunkey, Mattaponi, and Chislack Tribes.

Kuilix, (meaning "Red Shirt" or "Red One") also known as Kuiliy, Mary Quille, and Marie Quilax was a woman of the Pend d'Oreilles in Montana. She was the leader of a team of warriors who rescued another group of warriors while fighting the Blackfeet in 1842. A Jesuit priest named Father Nicholas Point who witnessed the battle wrote: <i>"The first Pend d’Oreille to dash out at the enemy was a woman named Kuilix, …

Private Minnie Spotted-Wolf was the first Native American woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps. She enlisted in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve in July 1943. She is a member of the Blackfeet tribe, and is from Heart Butte, Montana.

Ehyophsta (Cheyenne for "Yellow-Haired Woman") was a Cheyenne woman. She was the daughter of Stands-in-the-Timber who died in 1849, and she was the niece of Bad Faced Bull. She fought in the Battle of Beecher Island in 1868, and also fought the Shoshone that same year, where she counted coup against one enemy and killed another. She fought the Shoshone again in 1869. She was also a member of a secret society composed exclusively of Cheyenne women. She died in 1915.

Toby "Winema" Riddle (1848-1920) was a Modoc interpreter who helped with negotiations between the Native American Modoc tribe and the United States Army during the Modoc War (also called the Lava Beds War). Riddle was a cousin of Kintpuash, the leader of the Modoc tribe at the time of the Modoc War, and was married to Frank Riddle, a white settler, who had emigrated from Kentucky to California during the California Gold Rush.

Old-Lady-Grieves-The-Enemy was a Pawnee woman who gained her name in the 19th century. Her village was attacked by the Ponca and Sioux, and the men tried to run away. At this point she grabbed a war club and attacked the enemy, thus shaming the men and causing them to take action.

Colestah was one of the wives of Chief Kamiakin of the Yakama Native American tribe. She is described as being a medicine woman, a psychic, and a warrior. She accompanied Kamiakin to the Battle of Spokane Plain, armed with a stone war club, vowing to fight by his side. When Kamiakin was wounded, Colestah carried him off and used her skills in traditional tribal medicine to nurse him back to health.

Queen Alliquippa (d. December 23, 1754) was a leader of the Seneca tribe of American Indians during the early part of the 18th century. Little is known about Alliquippa's early life. Her date of birth has been estimated anywhere from the early 1670s to the early 1700s. By the 1740s, she was the leader of a band of Mingo Seneca living along the three rivers (the Ohio River, the Allegheny River, and the Monongahela River) near what is now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Hanging Cloud (Ojibwa name Ah-shah-way-gee-she-go-qua ("Aazhawigiizhigokwe" in the contemporary spelling), meaning "Goes Across the Sky Woman") was an Ojibwa woman who was a full warrior ("ogichidaakwe" in Ojibwe) among her people, and was the only woman to ever become one. She wore war paint, carried full weapons, and took part in battles, raids and hunting parties. She was a full member of the war council, performed war dances, …

Toypurina, was a Tongva medicine woman who opposed the rule of Spanish missionaries in California, and led an unsuccessful rebellion against them. Born in 1760, Toypurina was 9-years-old when the Spanish settlers first invaded what is now the Los Angeles basin. She was 11 when Mission San Gabriel was begun. She was 21 when Governor Felipe de Neve founded the City of Los Angeles. In time, Toypurina rose to be a powerful spiritual leader, respected for her bravery and wisdom.

The Other Magpie was a Crow woman who fought in the Battle of the Rosebud on the side of General Crook against the Sioux and Cheyenne. Pretty Shield, a Crow author and medicine woman, described her as being wild and attractive, but not having a man. She fought because her brother had recently been killed by the Sioux and she sought revenge against them. Most of the Crow carried rifles, but The Other Magpie carried only her belt knife and her coup stick.

One Who Walks With the Stars was an Oglala Sioux woman who was the wife of Crow Dog, a Brule Sioux warrior. She killed two soldiers by slashing and clubbing them in the water of the river bank during the Battle of Little Big Horn.

Tacumwah (c. 1720-c. 1790), alternate spelling "Taucumwah," also known as Marie-Louise Pacanne Richerville (Richardville) was a "chefress" of the Miami tribe, a businesswoman, and mother of Chief Richardville. She was also the sister of Michikinikwa ("Little Turtle"), and Pacan. From her brother Pacan she derived the "Pacanne" portion of her French surname. The name Tacumwah means "Parakeet" in the Miami language.

Madame Catherine (also Catharine) Montour, or Queen Catharine (1710-1804), was born in New France and became a prominent woman among the Iroquois during the end of the 18th century. Montour was reportedly a half-breed Huron (and also claimed to be the illegitimate daughter of a French official). She had been captured by the Iroquois and married to a Seneca chief.

Cuhtahlatah was a Cherokee woman who lived during the period of the American Revolutionary War. Her name means "wild hemp". When her husband was killed in battle, she grabbed his tomahawk and attacked the enemy, screaming "KILL! KILL!". Her people had been in retreat, but her actions inspired them to rally and they gained victory in the battle. Her story is contained in the Wahnenauhi manuscript of 1889.

Minnie Hollow Wood was a Lakota Sioux woman who earned the right to wear a warbonnet because of her actions in the Battle of Little Big Horn. Her husband's name was Hollow Wood.

Bras Piqué was the mother of a Great Sun of the Natchez people in the early-18th century, who, friendly to the French, attempted - or later claimed she had attempted - to warn them of plans by her tribe to attack them by surprise. She eventually was deported to Havana at the destruction of the Natchez nation in 1731, where she was sold as a slave. Her name, meaning "Pricked Arm", is a French translation of her Natchez name which is unknown.

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