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.

A year after her election, Choteau asserted, "I think my band obey me better than they would a man."

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