Women in war in Oceania

Queen of Tahiti

thumbnail|Example of tiputa (shirt), similar to the one worn by Nafanua during the wars Nafanua was a historical aliʻi (Paramount Chief/Queen) and toa (warrior) of Samoa from the Sā Tonumaipeʻa clan, who took the four pāpā (district) titles, the leading aliʻi titles of Samoa. After her death she became a goddess in Polynesian religion.

Tarenorerer, also known as Walyer, Montserrat, Tuculillo, or Walloa ( – 5 June 1831), was a rebel leader of the Aboriginal Tasmanians. Between 1828 and 1830, she led a guerrilla band of indigenous people of both sexes against the British colonists in Tasmania during the Black War.