1900s

Anfesia Shapsnikoff Lazaroff (01 oct 1901 – 15 jan 1973 | Atka AK – Unalaska AK) Aleut nurse, educator, community leader, Attu basketweaver

Della Puyuq Keats (15 apr 1907 – Usulak AK) Inupiaq Esimo, health care provider, autobiographical author, integrated ancestral healing practices (magico-religious) with Western medicine (empirico-rational)

1910s

Elizabeth Jean Wanamaker Peratrovich (04 jul 1911 – 01 dec 1958 | Petersburg AK – Seattle WA) Tlingit, aka Kaaxgal.aat, civil rights activist, AK Anti-Discrimination Act advocate (1945: first such legislation in US)

Marie Smith Jones (14 may 1918 – 21 jan 2008 | Cordova AK – Anchorage AK) Native Eyak Chief, last speaker of Eyak language, grammar / dictionary author and editor

1920s

Poldine Demoski Carlo (05 dec 1920 – 09 may 2018 | Nulato, Territory of Alaska – Fairbanks AK) author, memoirist, Alaskan Koyukon Athabaskan elder

Nora Marks Dauenhauer (08 may 1927 – 25 sep 2017 | Hoonah AK) – Juneau AK) poet, author, scholar, translator, researcher, short story writer, elementary school volunteer, former Poet Laureate of Alaska, Tlingit language and traditions specialist expert

1930s

Lucy Ann Carvell Johnson (14 oct 1935 – Skagway AK) escaped abusive husband, missing US woman found alive in British Columbia after 51 years 9 months missing

Lucia Brown Berlin (12 nov 1936 – 12 nov 2004 | Juneau AK – Marina del Ray CA) short fiction writer

Mary McGee (12 dec 1936 – Juneau AK) US motorsport racing pioneer, first woman to compete in motorcycle road racing and motocross events in the US

1940s

Edna Ahgeak MacLean Paniattaaq (05  nov 1944 – Barrow AK) author, Iñupiaq  linguist, translator, anthropologist, language preservationist

Susan Arnout Smith (31 oct 1948 – Anchorage AK) novelist, essayist, playwright, television scriptwriter

1950s

Dana Stabenow (27 mar 1952 – Anchorage AK) mystery, science fiction, suspense / thriller novelist

Maggie Hadleigh-West (01 oct 1958 – Fairbanks AK) activist, filmmaker, television producer, documentarian