The name says it all, does it not? Wilma Mankiller became the first woman to ever lead a major Native American tribe when she became the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1985. Her surname was passed down from[…]
Category: Woman Rulers
Empress Theodora
Let me start off by saying that I have THE BIGGEST historical badass lady crush on Empress Theodora. Honestly, if I could travel back in time, murder Emperor Justinian, and take his place, I wouldn’t think twice. Now that we’ve[…]
The Warrior Queen Boudica
Cassius Dio, the ancient Roman historian, described the ancient Celtic warrior queen Boudica as being “in appearance most terrifying, in the glance of her eye most fierce, and her voice was harsh: a great mass of the tawniest hair fell to[…]