This week on Broads You Should Know, Sara teaches Sam & Justin about Tuíra: the warrior woman from the Kayapó tribe in the Amazon rainforest who stood up to the world bank and stopped a dam from being built in 1989. The story has a few twists and turns, but the world will always remember the sight of the bare-chested woman who shoved a machete into a man’s face at a press conference in Brazil.
Yu Gwan-sun
Dr. Jessica Wade
Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke
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Betsy Ross
Pine Leaf Woman Chief
Two-Spirit Native American Chief Who Led With Peace
Olga of Kyiv
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“Half-Hanged Mary” Webster
The "Witch" of Hadley and ancestor of Margaret Atwood, inspiring her poem and dedication of the "The Handmaid's Tale".
Frida Kahlo
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Betsy Ross
Designer of the first American Flag
Nancy Dowd
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Lucille Bogan
One of the First Recorded Blues Singers & Pioneer of “Dirty Blues”
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One of the Last Samurai Warriors