Struggles of hearing unheard narratives The past few years I have been doing research on four indigenous women: Sacagawea, Kateri Tekakwitha, Pocahontas, and Doña Antonia. My investigation was how these women navigated through marriage among their own communities and from the colonizers as a means to assert their identities. I wanted to show their humanity because society has placed them as symbols or objects; however, they were people who had challenges and are more than just stories or representation. My first question to all of you is "Do you think that these women asserted their identities even when they were colonized by mostly white men?" My second question is "Why do we remember these women according to cultural stereotypes rather than focusing on their individualized identity or identities?