Lucy Poolaw, "Princess Watahwaso"

Lucy Nicolar Poolaw

Vaudeville performer and political activist. A member of the Penobscot Indian Tribe, she was born on Indian Island, Maine (Penobscot Indian Reservation, Penobscot County), one of three daughters of Elizabeth Joseph and Joseph Nicolar (1827-1894). Her siblings were Emma and Florence. She studied in the local Catholic primary school but had to discontinue her schooling to help her mother when her father died. She and her sisters helped her mother make and sell baskets.

She started performing around that time in productions to promote Maine tourism. She was noticed by Harvard administrator Montague Chamberlain, who became her patron and took her to Boston and New York for musical events. In 1905, she married a Boston doctor and moved to Washington, DC. They divorced in 1913 and she moved to Chicago to study piano at a music conservatory, the Music School of Chautaugua. She then married Tom Gorman, a lawyer, who became her manager. Her first public performance was in 1916. A mezzo-soprano, she became a recording artist at that point with Victor Artists. Her performances generally included Indianist and Native American pieces and opera arias.

In 1917, she joined the Redpath Chautaugua Bureau and traveled with them until 1919. During the 1920's, she traveled with the Keith Vaudeville Circuit, where she met fellow performer Chief Bruce Poolaw. When the stock market crashed in 1929, her husband Tom Gorman abandoned her and went to Mexico. She returned to her home on the Penobscot Reservation on Indian Island and some years later, Chief Bruce Poolaw joined her there. They married and settled down on Indian Island, where they built their home. She and her sister Florence worked tirelessly to improve educational opportunities for the Indian children and to seek the right for Indians on reservations to vote. She and Chief Poolaw continued to perform in local venues and in 1947, she had a 24 foot diameter tepee built next to their home. They used it as a gift store and tourist attraction, which they operated until her death in 1969.

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Mar 20 2021, 7:14:15 UTC

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• Residence: Old Town, Penobscot, Maine, United States - 1900
• Residence: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - 1910
• Residence: Same House - 1935
• Residence: Ward 4, Old Town, Old Town City, Penobscot, Maine, United States - 1940
  • Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Mar 20 2021, 6:58:26 UTC
• Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Mar 20 2021, 7:11:19 UTC
• Reference: Famous People Throughout History - SmartCopy: Mar 20 2021, 7:18:36 UTC

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Lucy Nicolar Poolaw (June 22, 1882 – March 27, 1969), also called Wa-Tah-Wa-So and billed as Princess Watahwaso, was a Penobscot and a performer on the Chautauqua and lyceum circuits.

• See full story - Lucy Nicolar Poolaw - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Nicolar_Poolaw

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Idag är det 14 dagar sedan vi genom en tragisk olycka förlorade en brandman, kollega och medmänniska. En familj förlorade en pappa, sambo / make, son.
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Denna olyckan tillsammans med två andra på kort tid där brandmän mist livet har ju fått mycket publicitet i media.
Man har skrivit många löpmeter om arbetsmiljön för oss brandmän vid olyckor och bristen på respekt för de avspärrningar vi gör.
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Idag på mitt arbetspass får jag och mina kollegor larm om trafikolycka med 3st personbilar på en 70 väg med två filigt i båda riktningarna.
Som räddningsledare på plats beslutar jag att vi spärrar av båda körfälten i den riktning olyckan skett med vår tankbil tvärsöver båda körfälten. Kö bildas..
I de två andra filerna i motsatt riktning flyter trafiken på.
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NÅGON försöker köra om vår tankbil och ut i mötande körbana varpå vederbörande då hade hamnat mitt i olyckan.
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Denna gången........
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Lucy Nicolar was born June 22, 1882, on Indian Island, Maine, the daughter of Joseph Nicolar and Elizabeth Joseph. Every summer, her family traveled to the resort town of Kennebunkport to sell baskets. Lucy and her sister performed in Indian dress for the tourists. In her late teens she started performing at public events such as sportsman’s shows.
During those performances, she came to the attention of a Harvard administrator who hired her as his assistant. He took her into his household and gave her musical and educational opportunities in Boston and New York. In 1905, she married a doctor and moved to Washington, D.C. Eight years later they divorced, and Lucy moved to Chicago to study music.
Lucy Nicolar also toured as part of the Redpath Chatauqua Bureau, then the Keith vaudeville circuit. She married a lawyer who became her manager. He took all her money and fled to Mexico after the stock market crashed in 1929.
When vaudeville died, she returned to the Penobscot Indian Island Reservation with her husband Bruce Poolaw, a Kiowa entertainer from Oklahoma. They opened a gift shop — a teepee 24 feet in diameter — called it Poolaw’s Indian TeePee and sold traditional Indian crafts. They also continued to entertain locally.
Lucy and her sister Florence campaigned to improve life for their people on the reservation,. Their land stretched along the Penobscot River from Indian Island near Old Town to East Millinocket.
The sisters raised the educational standards for Penobscot children by gaining access to the public schools. And they persuaded the state to build a bridge to the island.
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Postcard of Indian Island before the bridge
Lucy and Florence also demanded the right to vote for their people. When the state extended suffrage to the Penobscots in 1955, Lucy Nicolar cast the first ballot.
The Old Town Enterprise reported “The princess has done much for the uplift of her people during her public career, both locally and nationally.”
Lucy Nicolar died at Indian Island on March 27, 1969, at the age of 87.