Native Americans
- Angelina County, Texas: Angelina is named for Angelina, a Hainai Native American woman who assisted early Spanish missionaries and was named Angelina by them.
- Marinette County, Wisconsin: Marinette is named for Marinette, a 19th century trader who was the daughter of a French-Canadian trapper and a Menominee woman.
- Montour County, Pennsylvania: Montour is named for Madame Montour, a French-Indian woman who was involved in Native American affairs.
- Pocahontas County, West Virginia: Pocahontas is named for Pocahontas, the famous Native American who played a leading role in the history of the first permanent English settlements in North America.
- Pocahontas County, Iowa: Pocahontas is named for Pocahontas, the famous Native American who played a leading role in the history of the first permanent English settlements in North America.
- Tama County, Iowa: Tama is named for any of several Native American chiefs or chief's wives, over which there is dispute.
- Tippah County, Mississippi: Tippah is named for Tippah, wife of Pontotoc, an important Chickasaw leader.
- Winona County, Minnesota: Winona is named after Winona, a Dakota woman of distinction who was a cousin of the last of three chiefs named Wabasha.
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“It is fair to assume that when women in the past have achieved even a second or third place in the ranks of genius they have shown far more native ability than men have needed to reach the same eminence. Not excused from the more general duties that constitute the cement of society, most women of talent have had but one hand free with which to work out their ideal conceptions.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)
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