In 2012, Susan Allen became the first Two-Spirit Native American woman elected to serve in the Minnesota Legislature.

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Native American women have long been powerful leaders, organizers, storytellers, and changemakers — not only within their communities, but across the broader landscape of American history. Their ...

Opinion This Mother’s Day, Native News Online honors Native mothers — the life-givers, the culture-keepers, the women whose strength holds our nations together. For Native peoples, motherhood is more ...