indigenous women
First peoples' women
Indigenous women are women belonging to the original peoples of a region, particularly those whose ancestors inhabited lands before colonization.
The phrase appears frequently in discussions of violence, rights, and health disparities affecting Native women: Missing and murdered indigenous women have become a crisis across North America.
Often capitalized as Indigenous women.
- community leadersThose directing local groups
- healersThose who treat ailments
- sacred feminineRevered female spiritual principle
- matriarchsFemale family rulers
- traditional knowledgeCommunity wisdom across generations
activists · oral histories · storytellers · ancestral wisdom · political leaders · tribal sovereignty · filmmakers · ceremonial practices · marginalization · gender-based violence · educators · two-spirit · environmental justice · visual artists · intergenerational trauma · public speakers · musicians · spiritual beliefs
- female educationfemale education, female scholars, single-sex education, convent schools, finishing schools
- Filipinasdomestic workers, beauty queens
- womenmothers, females, gals, daughters, girls
- notable womenRosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony
- women's lawgender equality, equal rights, gender discrimination, reproductive rights, domestic violence
indigenous womencolonizers
Those who establish foreign control
settlers · colonial administrators · conquistadors · colonial officials · white settlers
indigenous, women, woman, womanly, womanhood, indigene, indigenously, indigenousness