Damiana da Cunha
Damiana da Cunha was a Southern Kayapó leader, diplomat and expedition leader who spent decades negotiating between Indigenous communities and the Portuguese colonial authorities. Her life reveals both the possibilities and limits of mediation on Brazil's expanding colonial frontier.
Micaela Bastidas
Micaela Bastidas was one of the principal leaders of the Great Andean Rebellion of 1780–1783. Her surviving letters reveal a strategist and organiser managing supplies, communications, recruitment and military decisions at the heart of the uprising.