SOME CONTESTANTS FOR 1952 RODEO QUEEN, COMPETITION WAS ON THURSDAY, July 1951

Jeanne Moreland, Sheridan Livestock and Racing Association.

Nancy Rachel Switzer, Sheridan American League.

Lucy Yellow Mule, Crow Roping Club

Margo Real Bird, Crow Indian Fair

Janet Jo Sobotka, Monarch Women’s Club

Delores Lee Sackett, Big Horn Womens Club.

Caroline Denny Roberts, Sheridan Flouring Mills, Inc.

Kathleen Grace Michelana, Arvada Women’s Club.

 

Lucy’ Court of Honor:

15 year old Joy Old Crow, of Lodge Grass Montana…

17 year old Alta Driftwood of Wyola., Montana
Regina Spotted Horse,

17 year old Regina Spotted Horse, of Lodge Grass Montant.

17 year old Doles Littlie Coyote of Ashland, Montana, a Cheyenne.

Through Sheridan and Lucy’s efforts to promote better understanding the discrimatory signs
in the restaurants disappeared. Sheridan won the “All American City” award and Lucy
and her court traveled to Washington D.C. and other locations.

 

 

MISS (INDIAN) AMERICA, 1952

DARWINA VALENE GOODCHIEF (Princess Chief Home)—Pawnee, Pawnee, Oklahoma

ALTA GENEVIEVE ALEXANDER (Tep-Seele)—Nez Perce. Culdesac, Idaho.

MARCELINE CHARLEY (Morning Star)—Warm Springs, Warm Springs, Oregon.

LOVERETTE JOY SHIELDS, (Oldest Daughter)Sioux,Poplar,

Montana.

 GLORIETTA WHITE ANTELOPE (Flying Woman) –Araphoe, St.

 Stephens, Wyoming.

DENISE HOME (Quenith)—Mohave—Shasta Parker, Arizona.

   

JULIA ELLA MANN (Rippling Water) –Yakima White Swan,Washington

 

JOYCE ELAINE ARROWCHIS—Ute Fort Duchesne, Utah.

HANSA FAYE SPANG (Shell Woman)—Cheyenne Lame Deer, Montana (Sponsored by Miles City Shrine Club

 

BETTY JEAN LUNDERMAN (Morning Star)—Sioux Rapid City, South Dakota. Sponsored by Rapid City Sioux Village.

 

ETTA LOUISE EADS (Little Deer)—Kaw or Kanze, Lawrence, Kansas. Sponsored by Ponca City, Okla. Jr. Chamber of Commerce and American Legion.

 

DOLORES JEAN McLAUGHLIN (Youngest Daughter)—Hunkpapa, Sioux. Fort Yates, No. Dak. Sponsored by Casper Shrine Club

 

LINNEA SAMPSON—Walla Walla, Pendleton, Oregon.

 

LORETTA GENEVIEVE QUAEMPTS—Umatilla, Pendleton, Ore.

 

ETTA LEONA CONNER (Wyassus)—Umatilla, Pendleton, Ore. Sponsored by Pendleton Chamber of Commerce.

 

DIANA MAE McKAY (Lily—Flower of the Pond)—Cayuse, Pendleton, Oregon. Sponsored by Pendleton Shrine Club.

 

CAROLINE ROSEMARY MOTANIC—Umtilla Pilot Rock, Oregon

 

JEANNETTE ROSELYN WESLEY (Morning Mist)—Yakima Toppenish, Washington.

 

YVONNE VIRGINIA MUSMUSTO (Y”on Pum)—Yakima Toppenish, Washington.

 

DARLENE JEAN DeSERSA (Black Hills Woman) –Sioux, Rapid City, South Dakota. Sponsored by Rapid City Shrine Club.

 

KAY PRICE (Princess White Feather)—Navajo Gallup New Mexico. Sponsored by Gallup Times.

BETTY ANN MERRIVAL (Shooting Star)—sioux (Oglala) Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Sponsored by Cheyenne Shrine Club

 

MARY ANN CHAROLOTTE SEELATSEE (Bright Sunshine)-Yakima White Swan, Washington.

 

HELEN SHARON MILLER    Wapato, Washington

 

CLARA JOY OLD CROW   Lodge Grass, Montana

 

LUCY YELLOWMULE    Wyola, Montana  

MILDRED LUCILLE RED BULL  (Cheyenne River) Faith, S.Dakota.

 

THERESE RUTH WOODENLEGS   Northern Cheyenne, Lame Deer  Shrine Club.

 

JOSEPHINE SPOTTED WOLF   Lame Deer, Montana

 

NANCY STANDING ELK    Birney, Montana.

 

ANNIE GRACE STRANGE OWL  Birney Montana

 

VIRGINIA FISHER   Northern Cheyenne

 

ALTA DRIFTWOOD (Stay with Her  Wyola, Montana

 

ETHEL JULIA JONES      Tulsa, Oklahoma

  

PAULINE MARARET    St. Stephen’s Mission, W

 

DARLENE ROSALIE ROO     WI, Kyle, South Dakota

 

RITA ANN McLAUGHLIN   Fort Yates, North Dakota

 

RUBY MAE GUY   Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

 

EDITH LUCILLE RICE   Lame Deer, Montana

 

ELEANOR JUNE HARRIS   Lame Deer Montana

 

SONDRA LEE BAZE   Tulsa, Oklahoma

 

TOMMIE BACHAND   Milwaukee, Wisconsin

 

MARY LOUISE DeFENDER      Fort Yates, No. Dakota

 

BARBARA LOUISE HUD     Fairfax, Oklahoma

 

FANNIE MAE BEARTR  Fairfax, Oklahoma

 

LILLIE MARIE READ RIDE…..Pawnee, Oklahoma

 

SHIRLEY CAREL SMITH   New Town North Dakota.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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