At 79 she walked the length of the North Island to tell Parliament: not one more acre of Māori land
A storekeeper, farmer and the first president of the Māori Women's Welfare League, she came out of retirement in 1975 to lead a land march of a…
Introduced a bill to abolish the slave trade year after year for nearly twenty years until it passed
A rich, sociable young MP who found religion and was persuaded to take on the slave trade. He lost vote after vote, was mocked and threatened, and…
First woman elected principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, rebuilding it after decades of decline
Raised in poverty after her family was relocated from Oklahoma to San Francisco under a federal assimilation programme, she returned to Cherokee…
Anti-apartheid leader whose own record was stained by violence carried out in her name
As a social worker turned activist she endured banishment, solitary confinement and years of state harassment for opposing apartheid, later using her…
