Rosana Chouteau was the first woman to be elected chief of the Osage Beaver Band, a clan of the
Native American Osage Nation
The Osage Nation ( ) ( Osage: ππ» ππΌπ°ππΌπ°Ν ('), "People of the Middle Waters") is a Midwestern Native American tribe of the Great Plains. The tribe developed in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys around 700 BC along ...
in
Oklahoma
Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, α£α§α³α°αΉ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...
, in 1875, following the death of her uncle.
A year after her election, Choteau asserted, "I think my band obey me better than they would a man."
In popular culture
She is featured (with her name incorrectly spelled as Rosa) in
Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen; July 20, 1939) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history ...
's installation art piece
''The'' ''Dinner Party''.
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Women in Oklahoma politics
Native American leaders
Osage Nation chiefs
19th-century Native Americans
19th-century Native American women
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Native American people from Oklahoma
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