Show Woman Chief ex-Chief of Seminoles Keeps Tribes Tribe's Vital Statistics WEWOKA Okla By The Associated Mrs Alice Allee D. D B I DavIs first woman chief of an Indian tribe now Is s the 75 year 75 ear old guIde phI phI-I philosopher and friend of Seminole tribesmen whom she ruled for two brief periods In 1922 1022 She frequently appears In the dis- dis distrIct district court here as an interpreter In litigation invoking the oil lands of the Her father John F. F Brown a Scotch physicIan and graduate of the University or of Edinburgh had come cometo cometo to the United as a surgeon dur- dur durIng during Ing the Chit 11 war At that time he marrIed Lucy Red Beard Deard a a. SemInole A son became chief or of the tribe and won on the title of r Ero Eo i After Arter the latter's death his sister Alice was appointed by President I to serve ns as chIef for one day In order to complete businESS which her brother had left unfinished A month later she was re appointed re-appointed In order to sIgn authoritatively a deed In behalf of the SemInole nation The deed decd called for the transfer of Erna- Erna haka MIssIon to II a private IndivIdual A school for SemInole girls the mIssIon had been condemned and the government wished to dispose of It Mrs DavIs refused to sign th the deed She contended that the land tad had been sold without the consent or of orthe the tribe and that the Indian re- re receIved received no part of the purchase price For her refusal she was immediately separated from her position as chief of the tribe Her retirement to private life Ufe by byno byno no means lessened her activities She keeps a record of births deaths and marriages among her people and is 15 al- al alwa always wa ways s 's prepared to supply Information to a fellow SemInole who wishes to prove hIs claIm to oil rIghts The federal government hu has sent Mrs Irs Davis to Florida three times In Inthe n the past generation to act as Inter Inter- Interpreter interpreter preter in trials involving Seminoles After being educated In Indian mis- mis misSion Sion the daughter of the Scotch physician and the Seminole maIden became the wife of a white man George Davis She Is the mother of eleven en children |