Princess Red Wing, aka Mary E. (Glasko) Congdon, (March 21, 1896 – December 2, 1987) was a Narragansett and Wampanoag elder, historian, folklorist, and museum curator.
She said that her mother chose to call her Princess Red Wing after the red-winged blackbird "to fling her mission far with grace".
[2][3] Her mother was a Pokanoket and her father was a Narragansett, and she was related to prominent Native Americans such as Simeon Simons, who fought with George Washington, and Metacomet, who is remembered for waging King Philip's War against the colonies in New England in the 1670s.
Red Wing was the co-founder and editor of The Narragansett Dawn tribal newspaper which was published from 1935 to 1936.
She became "Squaw Sachem" of the New England Council of Chiefs in 1945, a position which allowed her to preside over sacred ceremonies and festivals.