This book offers twenty original scholarly chapters featuring historical and biographical analyses of Native American women. The lives of women found her contributed significantly to their people and people everywhere. The book presents Native women of action and accomplishments in many areas of life. This work highlights women during the modern era of American history, countering past stereotypes of Native women. With the exceptions of Pocahontas and Sacajawea, historians have had little to say about American Indian women who have played key roles in the history of their tribes, their relationship with others, and the history of the United States. Indigenous women featured herein distinguished themselves as fiction and non-fiction writers, poets, potters, basket makers, musicians, and dancers. Other women contributed as notable educators and women working in health and medicine. They are representative of many women within the Native Universe who excelled in their lives to enrich the American experience.

Contributions by: Emily Molesworth-Teipe, Amanda K. Wixon, Meranda Roberts, Michelle Lorimer, Hal Hoffman, Clifford E. Trafzer, Christie Time Firtha, Kimberly Norris Guererro, Daisy Ocampo, Benjamin T. Jenkins, Lisa Riggan, Kevin Whalen, Jordan Cohen, Robert D. Miller, Brendan Lindsay, Jeffrey Allen Smith, Sarah Wolk FritzGerald