Background
Lucy Tayiah was born in 1888 in Indian Territory, along Beaver Creek. Her mother, Lezitte Betrand, was Kaw and Potawatomi. Little Tayiah, her father, was Kaw.
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Lucy Eads
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Haskell Indian Nations University.
Career
She was the first chief of the Kaws since 1908. Chief Washungah died in 1908. lieutenant was not until 1922 that the Kaws would have another tribal leader.
Eads was elected in November of that year.
She was the first woman to become tribal chief of the Kaw. She was voted in by eight council members.
Eads went by during her tenure as chief She tried to gain recognition for the tribe from the federal government, in 1924, but this was said to be contrary to the Allotment Agreement and denied.
In 1929, she attended the Inauguration of Herbert Hoover, representing the Kaw Nation.
In 1928, after Eads was reelected, the Kaw government was abolished.
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Nationality
Kaw people