Kateri Tekakwitha

San Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680) ay a Mohawk-Algonquin woman born in present-day New York. Orphaned as a child, siya converted to Catholicism at faced pag-uusig mula sa kanyang tribe. Kateri devoted kanyang buhay sa panalangin, penitential practices, at caring for mga maysakit at elderly. Kilala siya bilang the "Lily of the Mohawks" at ay the unang Native American to be ibineatipiko at ikinanonisa. Kateri ay the patroness of ecology, the environment, at Indigenous people.