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Freedom enjoyed by all

Lori J. Wilfahrt (courtesy photo) Our son, Corporal Andrew…

Truth-teller

Maureen Dane Bauer (Courtesy Photo) It was the early '90s,…

Memory maps: Mona Smith finds stories about the past in order to create a better future

Mona Smith at Minnehaha Falls, a sacred Dakota site. (Photo…

Sermons on the tractor

"Sometimes when I am weeding or driving the tractor, I am rolling a sermon around in my head."

Voice leader

What did I want to do as an Anishinaabe female musician?"

2009 Changemaker: Audrey Thayer and the Native Women Together Sewing Project

"You just don't do a work of art in a frame of hateful feelings. When you touch the thread, material, there's a flowing of good feelings, and you pass that on."

Maryam’s mission

"Absolutely I'm a feminist. I am not a man-hater. That's not the point. It's the equality, allowing people to be all that they are."

Suzanne Koepplinger

"We can't move forward until we have more than anecdotal information. We've got to have the data."

Native women lead

The women who lead Minnesota’s American Indian tribes are part of the ancient custom of female leadership in the Native Nations.

The political is personal

Juliana Hu Pegues' political involvement and cultural identity have informed her work from the beginning

Leading with her heart

"I wanted women ... to have the resources and support to move out of those violent relationships and understand, most importantly, that what is happening to them isn't a result of what they are doing ... that they didn't bring it on themselves."

2007 Changemaker: Sheila Wellstone Institute

The most important thing you can do is to make sure legislators and candidates will support sexual assault funding.