Amelia Elizabeth White and Martha Root White
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Amelia Elizabeth White and Martha Root White with four of their Irish wolfhounds | |
| Born | 1878 (Amelia Elizabeth White) |
| Died | 1972 (aged 93–94) 1937 |
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Amelia Elizabeth White (1878–1972) and Martha Root White (died 1937), also known as The White Sisters, were sibling philanthropists and socialites born in New York, who settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico and championed for Indigenous people's land and cultural rights. They were "avid supporters of Indigenous arts", and were known in the region as a "powerhouse of reform in Native issues."