[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 17 (Thursday, January 30, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Page S1806]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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             IN RECOGNITION OF SUSIE ROZETTA EADES DOUGLAS

 Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. President, I rise today to honor Susie 
Rozetta Eades Douglas. Mrs. Douglas, 81, was a Cheyenne and Pawnee and 
enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. Her 
great-grandfather was Bull Bear, who was a Cheyenne peace chief, leader 
of the Dog Men Society, and the first signatory to the Medicine Lodge 
Creek Treaty of 1867. Her grandfather, Thunderbird--Richard Davis--and 
artist and writer, is credited with preserving valuable ceremonial 
information at a time when the Sun Dance and other Cheyenne ceremonies 
were outlawed.
  Born in Pawnee, Oklahoma, on July 2, 1921, to Richenda Aspenall Davis 
Eades and Joseph Cleveland Eades, Sr., she was raised in El Reno, 
Oklahoma, graduated from Chilocco Indian School in 1940, and earned an 
associate degree in business from Haskell Institute in Lawrence, KS, 
Class of 1943.
  Homemaker and Eastern Star, she was a Quilting Society member and an 
active volunteer worker for the Democratic Party. As an Army wife, she 
traveled extensively and lived in Oahu, Hawaii, and Naples, Italy, 
before settling into her longtime home in San Antonio, Texas.
  She passed away in San Antonio on January 21, from pneumonia and 
complications of diabetes and Alzheimer's disease, and was buried on 
January 25 at the Cheyenne Arapaho Cemetery in Concho, Oklahoma.
  She is survived by her husband of nearly 59 years, Freeland Edward 
Douglas, Hodulgee Muscogee; their daughter Suzan Shown Harjo and son 
Dennis Gene Douglas; and a host of grandchildren and 
greatgrandchildren. Her daughter says Mrs. Douglas was her inspiration 
for work on the American Indian Religious Freedom Act and sacred lands 
protection and repatriation laws.

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