2022

Maxidiwiac (Buffalo Bird Woman)

Photo published in “Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden” by Maxi’diwiac (Buffalo Bird Woman) (ca.1839-1932) of the Hidatsa Indian Tribe; edited by Gilbert Livingstone Wilson, Ph.D (1868-1930). Originally published as “Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians: An Indian Interpretation,” Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota (Studies in the Social Sciences, #9), 1917. https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/buffalo/garden/front-page.jpg Native American (Hidatsa), Autoethnography Maxidiwiac (Buffalo […]

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Queen Lili‘uokalani (Lydia Lili‘u Loloku Walania Wewehi
Kamaka‘eha)

Liliuokalani, the last sovereign of the Kamehameha dynasty that ruled the Hawaiian kingdom. ca. 1891. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. LOT 3559, LC-DIG-ppmsca-53150 Native Hawaiian, Music, Activism Queen Lili‘uokalani (Lydia Lili‘u Loloku Walania WewehiKamaka‘eha) (1838-1917) Born Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Waiania Wewehi Kamakaʻeha on the island of Oʻahu in 1838, Queen Liliʻuokalani was the

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Charlotte Forten Grimke

Photo by C.M. (Charles Milton) Bell (ca. 1849-1893), taken in 1893 in Washington D.C. From the New York Public Library digital collections. African American, Ethnography, Literature, Activism Charlotte Forten Grimke (1837-1914) Charlotte Louise Forten was born free and raised in the prominent Forten-Purvis abolitionist family in Philadelphia’s elite African American community. Due to segregation, she

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King Kalākahua (David La‘amea Kamanakapu‘u Mahinulani
Nalaiaehuokalani Lumialani)

Photo by James J. Williams. Hawaii State Archives. Call Number: PPWD-15-4.018 Native Hawaiian, Music, Dance, Cultural Activism King Kalākahua (David La‘amea Kamanakapu‘u MahinulaniNalaiaehuokalani Lumialani) (1836-1891) King Kalākaua reaffirmed Hawai`i’s sovereignty through advancing the island country’s international profile and promoting Hawaiian cultural revitalization after decades of suppression. Born David La‘amea Kamanakapu‘u Mahinulani Nalaiaehuokalani Lumialani, King Kalākaua

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Frederick Douglass

Photo ca. 1879. National Archives, Frank W. Legg Photographic Collection of Portraits of Nineteenth-Century Notables, 1862–1884. NAID: 558770, War and Conflict Number 113. African American, Autoethnography Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) Enslaved from birth, Frederick Douglass, neé Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was born in Talbot County, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818 to an enslaved

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Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Bamewawagezhikaquay)

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft or Bamewawagezhikaquay, photographer unknown, photograph from 1860, Bentley Historical Library University of Michigan, Johnson Family Papers. Native American (Anishinaabe), Ethnography, Literature Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Bamewawagezhikaquay) (1800-1842) Jane Johnston Schoolcraft was the first published Indigenous poet from the United States, the first known poet to write in a Native American language, and the

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