There is insufficient recognition given to Native American women, many of whom have made enormous contributions to their respective tribal nations and to the br

In this spiritual, moving autobiography, Wilma Mankiller, former Chief of the Cherokee Nation and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, tells of her

In fulfilling their traditional roles as leaders in their communities, American Indian women are oftenat the core of American Indianresistance and struggle for

Native women have filled their communities with strength and leadership, both historically and as modern-day warriors. The twelve Indigenous women featured in t

The term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, the female counterpart to caciques, the Arawak word for male indigenous leaders in Spanish America. But the