North American Indian Women's Association
The North American Indian Women's Association (NAIWA) is a non-profit educational and service association, which seeks to promote intertribal communications, betterment of home, family life and community, betterment of health and education, awareness of
Isleta Pueblo in New Mexico in 1973,[7] who was in turn succeeded by Mary Jane Fate (Koyukon Athabaskan) from Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1975.[8] Only women from federally recognized Indian tribes can be members.[9]
The association named Muriel Hazel Wright the outstanding Indian woman of the 20th century in 1971.[10]
References
- ^ Naiwa
- Newspaperarchive.com.
- Newspapers.com.
- Newspapers.com.
- Newspapers.com.
- Newspapers.com.
- ^ Britannica
- ^ Muriel Hazel Wright, Joey Horsley, FemBio.org, retrieved 8 February 2015