Czarina C. Conlan

Czarina Colbert Conlan

Chickasaw and Choctaw heritage. Born in Colbert, Indian Territory, USA.

Czarina Conlan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Czarina Conlan Czarina Conlan.jpg 1906 Born Madeline Czarina Colbert January 14, 1871 Colbert, in the Chickasaw Nation of Indian Territory Died May 5, 1958 (aged 87) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Nationality American Other names Czarina Colbert Ethnicity Chickasaw-Choctaw Occupation museum curator, Native American cultural preservationist, suffragist and indigenous rights activist Years active 1919-1942 Known for first woman to be elected to a school board in Oklahoma and first woman to represent the Choctaw Nation in Washington, D.C.

Czarina Conlan (1871-1958) was a Choctaw-Chickasaw archivist, who curated at the Oklahoma Historical Society museum for 24 years. She founded the first woman's club in Indian Territory and served as the chair of the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Committee of the Oklahoma State Federation of Women's Clubs for 12 years. She was the first woman elected to serve on a school board in the state and though the Attorney General of Oklahoma ruled she could not serve, she defied the order and completed a two-year term on the Lindsay School Board. In 1928, she was appointed by an assembly of 400-500 Choctaw and Chickasaw tribe members from throughout Oklahoma to chair their convention and then to represent their interests in Washington, D.C. on the pending coal and asphalt resources bill. It was the first time a woman had been sent from either tribe as a representative for their tribe in Washington. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1935.

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czarina_Conlan
• Indians of Today, Published 1960. Book by Marion E. Gridley
• * https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006577534
• * http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/4637/Gridley-Marion-E-...