Rosana Chouteau

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

Rosalie Captain Chouteau sometimes referred to as Rosana or Rosa, [1][2]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.[3][4][5]

A year after her election, Choteau asserted, "I think my band obey me better than they would a man."[6][5]

She is featured (with her name incorrectly spelled as Rosa) in Judy Chicago's installation art piece The Dinner Party.[7]

References

  1. ↑ St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Friday, April 10, 1885 pg 12 retrieved 2026-8-23
  2. ↑ Dahlberg, Sophia Little Bear 1985/2000 Those Illustrious Frenchmen: The Chouteaus and the Osage Indians, pg 26
  3. ↑ Buchanan, James Shannon (1954). Chronicles of Oklahoma. Oklahoma Historical Society.
  4. ↑ Niethammer, Carolyn (2010). Daughters of the Earth. Simon and Schuster.
  5. 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.
  6. ↑ Foreman, Carolyn Thomas (1975). Indian Women Chiefs (Repr. [d. Ausg.] Muskogee, Okla. : Hoffman, 1954. ed.). Washington: Zenger Pub. Co. ISBN 0892010193.
  7. ↑ "Brooklyn Museum: Rosa Chouteau". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-11-22.


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