20th-century Native American women

The list 20th-century Native American women includes Irene Bedard, Faith Spotted Eagle, Jeri Ah-be-hill, Garnet Pavatea and Marcella LeBeau. The list consists of 683 members.

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1.

Cathee Dahmen

American model

Overview: 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

Age: 52 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

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Native American female models 10T

20th-century American women 4,526T

Female models from Minnesota 29T
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Sheila Tousey

American actress (born 1959)

Overview: Sheila May Tousey (born June 4, 1960) is a Native American actress.

Date of birth: 4 June 1960

Age: 64

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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People from Keshena, Wisconsin 6T

Native American actresses 38T

Actresses from Wisconsin 72T
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Kay Starr

American singer

Overview: 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

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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Deaths from dementia in California 200T

Neurological disease deaths in California 455T

21st-century Native American women 559T
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Irene Bedard

American actress (born 1967)

Overview: 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

Age: 57

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' (152 cm)

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21st-century Native American women 595T

Disney voice actors 118T

Inuit actresses 27T
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Della Reese

American, Actress

Overview: 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

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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American people who self-identify as being of Cherokee descent 234T

American people who self-identify as being of Native American descent 356T

20th-century African-American women singers 894T
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Kim Winona

American, Actress

Overview: 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

Age: 47 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)

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People from South Sioux City, Nebraska 8T

American actresses who committed suicide 77T

People from Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota 23T
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Elaine Miles

American actor

Overview: 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

Age: 64

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Nez Perce people 19T

Native American actresses 35T

Actresses from Oregon 62T
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Randy'L He-dow Teton

American model

Overview: 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

Age: 48

Nationality: American

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

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Female models from Idaho 9T

Native American female models 8T

Bannock people 12T
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Rosella Hightower

American ballet dancer

Overview: 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

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Ballet dancer

Gender: Female

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20th-century American ballet dancers 142T

Paris Opera Ballet artistic directors 26T

American ballerinas 290T
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Edmonia Lewis

American sculptor (1844–1907)

Overview: 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

Age: 62 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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New-York Central College alumni 6T

African-American expatriates in the United Kingdom 10T

19th-century American women artists 468T
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Bessie Coleman

American aviator (1892–1926)

Overview: 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

Age: 34 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Aviator

Gender: Female

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Barnstormers 19T

Wing walkers 9T

Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1926 6T
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Joanne Shenandoah

American musician

Overview: 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

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

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2021 deaths 8,920T

20th-century American women guitarists 263T

21st-century American women guitarists 307T
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Maria Tallchief

American ballerina

Overview: 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

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Dancer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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20th-century ballet dancers 193T

People from Fairfax, Oklahoma 7T

American ballerinas 238T
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Kimberly Guerrero

Native American advocate and actress in film, TV, and stage

Overview: 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

American actor

Overview: 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

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Cherokee Nation actresses 5T

Cherokee Nation artists 44T

Cherokee Nation people (1794–1907) 50T
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Geraldine Keams

Navajo actress

Overview: 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

Age: 73

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Native American people from Arizona 72T

21st-century Native American women 559T

Native American actresses 49T
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Mary Kim Titla

American politician

Overview: 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

Age: 64

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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21st-century American women politicians 3,139T

20th-century American women 4,137T

Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication alumni 34T
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Tina Manning

American activist

Overview: 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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American women activists 856T

Arson in the United States 4T

Deaths from fire in the United States 142T
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Lori Piestewa

American soldier

Overview: 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

Age: 23 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Military

Gender: Female

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People from Tuba City, Arizona 7T

United States Army personnel of the Iraq War 330T

Military personnel from Arizona 38T
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Debora Iyall

Musical artist

Overview: 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

Age: 70

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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People from Soap Lake, Washington 4T

21st-century American women singers 2,630T

20th-century American women singers 2,001T