Lori Piestewa

Lori Piestewa
Lori Piestewa
	Piestewa a few weeks before her death in 2003
Native name	Kocha-Hon-Mana
Born	December 14, 1979; Tuba City, Arizona, United States
Died	March 23, 2003 (aged 23); Nasiriyah, Dhi Qar, Iraq
Buried	Tuba City Community Cemetery, Tuba City, Arizona, U.S.
Allegiance	United States
Service/branch	United States Army
Years of service	2001–2003
Rank	Specialist (posthumous)
Unit	507th Maintenance Company
Battles/wars	Iraq War Invasion of Iraq †;
Awards	Purple Heart; Prisoner of War Medal

Lori Ann Piestewa (/paɪˈɛstəwɑː/ py-ES-tə-wah;^[2] December 14, 1979 – March 23, 2003) was a United States Army soldier killed during the Iraq War. A member of the Quartermaster Corps, she died in the same Iraqi attack in which fellow soldiers Shoshana Johnson and Piestewa's friend Jessica Lynch were injured. A Hopi, Piestewa was the first Native American woman to die in combat while serving in the U.S. military and the first woman in the U.S. military killed in the Iraq War.^[1] Arizona's Piestewa Peak is named in her honor.

^ ^a ^b Williams, Rudi (May 27, 2003). "Army Spc. Lori Piestewa". American Forces Press Service. Archived from the original on August 8, 2007. Retrieved July 31, 2007.
^ Pancrazio, Angela Cara (May 26, 2003). "Piestewa is latest hard-to-pronounce name for Arizona". The Arizona Republic. Retrieved December 1, 2009.