First Female Native American To Sign a Treaty with the United States

 

1.       1677 - Back in the ‘New World’ it is 1677 and a female Pamunkey Indian Chief named Cockacoeske, known by many as the Queen of the Pamunkey had emerged before the House of Burgess in Jamestown asking for the release of Pamunkey people taken captive during an attack by Nathaniel Bacon (Bacons Rebellion) .  On May 29, 1677 she was the first of the tribal leaders to sign the Treaty of Middle Plantation, sometimes called the Treaty of 1677. 

 

   During her thirty years as Chief she worked diligently to maintain peace and unity between the tribes and the colonist. Cockacoeske died in Virginia in 1686. She was succeeded by Queen Betty (a niece). She will reign from 1686 until her death in 1708.

   A statue of Queen Cockacoeske stands at the Virginia Women’s Monument Memorial.

This is an excerpt from the book, "Women's History: Trivia, Firsts, & Musings by Paula C. Henderson https://amzn.to/3C2WWN2

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