1810s
Maria Teresa [Teresita] Sandoval Suazo (29 nov 1811 – 1894 | Taos NM – Pueblo CO) pioneer, co-founder of El Pueblo CO, one of first European women to live in Arkansas Valley, managed Doyle Settlement ranch
1880s
María Montoya Martínez (05 apr 1881 [or 1887] – 20 jul 1980 | San Ildefonso NM – San Ildefonso NM) ceramic artist, cultural icon, self-taught Tewa potter, aka Po-Ve-Ka [Pond Lily]
Margretta Stewart Shaw Dietrich (23 nov 1881 – 13 jan 1961 | Philadelphia PA – Santa Fe NM) author, activist, feminist, suffragist, cultural conservationist
1890s
Quah Ah [Tonita] Vigil Peña (10 may 1893 – 09 sep 1949 | San Ildefonso NM – Santo Domingo Pueblo NM) muralist, women’s rights advocate, pen-and-ink / watercolor artist, aka María Antonia Tonita Peña
Georgia Lee Lusk (12 may 1893 – 05 jan 1971 | Carlsbad NM – Albuquerque NM) educator, public servant, first woman NM State Representative
Fabiola Cabeza de Baca (16 may 1894 – 14 oct 1991 | Las Vegas NM – Albuquerque NM) activist, author, educator, nutritionist, multi-linguist, cookbook writer, invented U-shaped fried taco shell
Ann Nolan Clark (05 dec 1896 – 13 dec 1995 | Las Vegas NM – Tucson AZ) author, educator, focus on Native American life, born Anna Marie Nolan, published by US Bureau of Indian Affairs, ambassador for Institute of Inter-American Affairs
1900s
Maria Margarita [Margaret] Tafoya (13 aug 1904 – 25 feb 2001 | Santa Clara Pueblo NM – Santa Clara Pueblo NM) aka Corn Blossom, Santa Clara Pueblo potter, Native American matriarch
1910s
Helen Cordero (15 jun 1915 – 24 jul 1994 | Cochiti Pueblo NM – Cochiti Pueblo NM) potter, storyteller pottery figurines inventor / innovator
Nina Leopold Bradley (04 aug 1917 – 25 may 2011 | Albuquerque NM – Barbaboo WI) author, researcher, conservationist
Pablita Velarde (19 sep 1918 – 12 jan 2006 | Santa Clara Pueblo NM – Albuquerque NM) Pueblo artist, painter, watercolorist, aka Tse Tsan [Tewa for Golden Dawn], one of first women accepted to Dorothy Dunn’s Santa Fe Studio Art School, commissioned by National Park’s WPA Grant to paint works for Bandelier National Monument
1920s
Antonia Apodaca (01 nov 1923 – 25 jan 2020 | Rociada NM – Albuquerque NM) guitarist, musician, songwriter, accordianist, New Mexico music specialist
Louise Abeita Chewiwi (09 sep 1926 – 21 jul 2014 | Isleta Pueblo NM – Albuquerque NM) poet, writer, educator, aka E-Yeh-Shure or Blue Corn, Isleta Pueblo-American
Mari-Luci Jaramillo (19 jun 1928 – 20 nov 2019 | Las Vegas NM – Albuquerque NM) author, memoirist, schoolteacher, academic administrator, US Ambassador to Honduras
Carolyn Jean Spellman Shoemaker (24 jun 1929 – Gallup NM) astronomer, comet hunter, record-breaking comet discoverer
1930s
Dolores Fernandez Huerta (10 apr 1930 – Dawson NM) author, speaker, labor leader, social justice activist
Nancy Valverde (06 mar 1932 – Deming NM) barber, former laborer, Chicana butch lesbian icon of Los Angeles CA, subject of books / plays / documentaries
Estela Ruiz (08 apr 1936 – Lordsburg NM) author, alleged Marian visionary
Anita Louise Suazo (13 may 1937 – Santa Clara Pueblo NM) Native American, Pueblo potter
Paula Gunn Allen (24 oct 1939 – 29 may 2008 | Albuquerque NM – Fort Bragg CA) Native American poet, novelist, literary critic, lesbian activist
Jereldine [Jeri] Redcorn (23 nov 1939 – Albuquerque NM) artist, potter, Caddo / Potawatomi Native American, credited with reviving traditional Caddo pottery
1940s
Maxine Baca Zinn (11 jun 1942 – Santa Fe NM) author, sociologist, professor, researcher
Linda Cozby Wertheimer (19 mar 1943 – Carlsbad NM) author, National Public Radio journalist
Nancy Kozikowski (31 mar 1943 – Albuquerque NM) painter, weaver, tapestry specialist, carpet designer / maker, silk embroidery designer, public installation artist
Vera Chino Ely (27 jun 1943 – Acoma Pueblo NM) Native American Pueblo potter
Sara Jane Misquez (06 sep 1945 – 09 jan 2008 | Mescalero NM – near Tularosa NM) American Mescalero Apache Native American leader, president of Mescalero Apache of southern New Mexico
LaVonne Salleé (18 jan 1946 – Roswell NM) found / recycled / conceptual artist
Judy Zebra [J. Z.] Knight (16 mar 1946 – Roswell NM) mystic, author, self-professed spiritual channel, born Judith Darlene Hampton
Leslie Marmon Silko (05 mar 1948 – Albuquerque NM) poet, novelist, filmmaker, short fiction writer
Denise Chavez (15 aug 1948 – Las Cruces NM) author, editor, playwright, stage director
Rosa Maria Calles (15 oct 1949 – Tome NM) Hispanic-American artist, playwright, stage and film writer, producer, director
1950s
Lucy Tapahonso (08 nov 1953 – Shiprock NM) poet, Navajo-English translator, lecturer in Native American Studies, first Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation
Darcy Pattison (28 jun 1954 – Albuquerque NM) blogger, indie publisher, writing teacher, children’s fiction / nonfiction author
Pamela Burford (09 aug 1954 – Las Cruces NM) twin, romance / romantic suspense novelist
Patricia Burford Ryan (09 aug 1954 – Las Cruces NM) twin, romance novelist, mystery novelist as P. B. Ryan
Gloria La Riva (13 aug 1954 – Albuquerque NM) author, translator, political activist, documentary filmmaker, US Party for Socialism and Liberation presidential candidate [2008 and 2016]
Rebecca Vigil-Giron (04 sep 1954 – Taos NM) author, politician, longest-serving New Mexico Secretary of State
Pamela Porter (14 jul 1956 – Albuquerque NM) American-born Canadian poet, novelist
Elizabeth Toya Medina (30 nov 1956 – Jemez Pueblo NM) artist, Pueblo potter