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Catherine Helen Sachs née Cathee Dahmen (September 16, 1945 – November 25, 1997) was an American model in the 1960s and 1970s.
Date of birth: 16 September 1945
Date of death: 25 November 1997
Nationality: American
Occupation: Model
Gender: Female
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Sheila May Tousey (born June 4, 1960) is a Native American actress.
Date of birth: 4 June 1960
Nationality: American
Occupation: Actress
Gender: Female
Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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Catherine Laverne Starks (July 21, 1922 – November 3, 2016), known professionally as Kay Starr, was an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the late 1940s and 1950s. She ...
Date of birth: 21 July 1922
Date of death: 3 November 2016
Nationality: American
Occupation: Singer
Gender: Female
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Irene Bedard (born July 22, 1967) is an American actress, who has played mostly lead Native American roles in a variety of films. She is perhaps best known for the role of Suzy Song in the 1998 film Smoke ...
Date of birth: 22 July 1967
Nationality: American
Occupation: Actress
Gender: Female
Height: 5' (152 cm)
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Delloreese Patricia Early (July 6, 1931 – November 19, 2017), known professionally as Della Reese, was an American jazz and gospel singer, actress, and ordained minister whose career spanned seven decades ...
Date of birth: 6 July 1931
Date of death: 19 November 2017
Nationality: American
Occupation: Actress
Gender: Female
Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)
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Kim Winona (born Constance Elaine Mackey; October 10, 1930 – June 23, 1978), also credited as Connie Buck, was an American actress, mostly playing Native American roles in Western television programs.
Date of birth: 10 October 1930
Date of death: 23 June 1978
Nationality: American
Occupation: Actress
Gender: Female
Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)
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Elaine Miles (born April 7, 1960, in Pendleton, Oregon) is an American actress known for her role as Marilyn Whirlwind in the television series Northern Exposure.
Date of birth: 7 April 1960
Nationality: American
Occupation: Actress
Gender: Female
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Randy'L He-dow Teton (born 1976) is the Shoshone woman who posed as the model for the US Sacagawea dollar coin, first issued in 2000.
Date of birth: 1976
Nationality: American
Occupation: Model
Gender: Female
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Rosella Hightower (January 10, 1920 – November 4, 2008) was an American ballerina who achieved fame in both the United States and Europe.
Date of birth: 30 January 1920
Date of death: 3 November 2008
Nationality: American
Occupation: Ballet dancer
Gender: Female
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Mary Edmonia Lewis, "Wildfire" (c. July 4, 1844 – September 17, 1907), was an African American sculptor, of mixed African-American and Native American (Ojibwe) heritage. Born free in Upstate New York ...
Date of birth: 4 July 1845
Date of death: 17 September 1907
Nationality: American
Occupation: Artist
Gender: Female
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Bessie Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926) was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman, and also the first Native-American, to hold a pilot license. She ...
Date of birth: 26 January 1892
Date of death: 30 April 1926
Nationality: American
Occupation: Aviator
Gender: Female
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Joanne Shenandoah (1958-2021) was a Native American singer, composer and acoustic guitarist based in the United States. She was a citizen of the Oneida Indian Nation, Wolf clan, based in New York. The ...
Date of birth: 1958
Date of death: 22 November 2021
Nationality: American
Occupation: Musician
Gender: Female
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Elizabeth Marie "Betty" Tallchief (Osage family name: Ki He Kah Stah Tsa; January 24, 1925 – April 11, 2013) was an American ballerina. She was considered America's first major prima ballerina. She was ...
Date of birth: 24 January 1925
Date of death: 11 April 2013
Nationality: American
Occupation: Dancer
Gender: Female
Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)
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Kimberly Norris (married name Guerrero), (born 1967), is a Native American actress in film, TV, and stage; and a screenwriter. She has over two dozen screen appearances, generally playing roles of In ...
Occupation: Actress
Gender: Female
Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
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Evelyn Varden (born Mae Evelyn Hall June 12, 1893, Adair, Oklahoma – July 11, 1958, Manhattan, New York City) was an American character actress.
Date of birth: 12 June 1893
Date of death: 11 July 1958
Nationality: American
Occupation: Actress
Gender: Female
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Geraldine Keams (born August 19, 1951) is an American actress. She is best known for her work in numerous television series, often playing a maternal role. She is a member of the Navajo Nation.
Date of birth: 19 August 1951
Nationality: American
Occupation: Actress
Gender: Female
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Mary Kim Titla (born November 24, 1960) is an American publisher, Native American youth advocate, journalist, former TV reporter (notably for KVOA in Tucson, where in 1987 she became the first Native ...
Date of birth: 24 November 1960
Nationality: American
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Female
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Tina Manning was born on January 18, 1950. Tina Manning was a Paiute-Shoshone water rights activist and wife of John Trudell. Manning was the daughter of Arthur and Leah Hicks Manning. Her father had served ...
Date of death: 12 February 1979
Nationality: American
Occupation: Activist
Gender: Female
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Lori Ann Piestewa ( py-ES-tə-wah; December 14, 1979 – March 23, 2003) was a United States Army soldier killed during the Iraq War. A member of the Quartermaster Corps, she died in the same Iraqi attack ...
Date of birth: 14 December 1979
Date of death: 30 March 2003
Nationality: American
Occupation: Military
Gender: Female
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Debora Kay Iyall (born 29 April 1954), best known simply by her professional name Debora Iyall , a Cowlitz Native American, is an artist and was lead singer for the new wave band Romeo Void. Debora got ...
Date of birth: 29 April 1954
Nationality: American
Occupation: Singer
Gender: Female
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