Shelby’s role could, they say, be a key factor allowing the MOWA tribe to become the second in Alabama – aside from the Poarch Band of Creek Indians – to gain federal recognition.

So it was always men. The men in the tribe was the leaders. And that's how it was until now. But weren’t the women in the Alabama and the Coushatta tribes, up until or through the 18th century ...

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On New Year’s Day, Williams, 66, was inaugurated as second chief of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, becoming the first woman elected to the post in the tribe’s over-200-year history.