Rosana Chouteau
| Rosana Chouteau | |
|---|---|
| First female elected chief of the Osage Beaver Band, of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, in 1875 leader |
Rosana Chouteau was the first woman to be elected chief of the Osage Beaver Band, a clan of the Native American Osage Nation in Oklahoma, in 1875, following the death of her uncle.[1][2][3]
A year after her election, Choteau asserted, "I think my band obey me better than they would a man."[4][3]
References
- ↑ Buchanan, James Shannon (1954). Chronicles of Oklahoma. Oklahoma Historical Society.
- ↑ Niethammer, Carolyn (2010). Daughters of the Earth. Simon and Schuster.
- 1 2 Weatherford, Doris L. (2003). A History of Women in the United States: State-By-State Reference, 4 volume set. Danbury, CT: Grolier. ISBN 071725805X.
- ↑ Foreman, Carolyn Thomas (1975). Indian Women Chiefs (Repr. [d. Ausg.] Muskogee, Okla. : Hoffman, 1954. ed.). Washington: Zenger Pub. Co. ISBN 0892010193.
External links
- "Osage Nation, Oklahoma: History of the Osage". USGenWeb Archives. Retrieved 2013-08-13.
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