Excerpted and adapted with permission from Unruly Figures: Twenty Tales of Rebels, Rulebreakers, and Revolutionaries You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of by Valorie Castellanos Clark, published March 5, 2023 by Chronicle Books. All rights reserved. Like many Indigenous peoples’ stories, those of Tarenorerer were dismissed by colonizers. Large swaths of her record are lost to time. Even her name is often obscured by the name white enslavers gave her: Walyer. It’s hard to say why they changed her name to this. Perhaps it meant something to them; perhaps “Tarenorerer” was too…
