Rosana Chouteau

Rosana Chouteau
First female elected chief of the Osage Beaver Band, of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, in 1875 leader
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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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