Monday, November 23, 2020

Celebrating Native American Heritage Month: Alice Brown Davis, first female Chief of the Seminole tribe



Alice Brown Davis, born September 10, 1852 in Park Hill, Indian Territory, near what is now Tahlequah, Oklahoma, became the first female Principal Chief of the Seminole Tribe of Oklahoma.

She was appointed at 70 in 1922 by President Warren G. Harding.  She served until her death in June 1935 in Wewoka, Oklahoma.  


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