Person: Mary Drake, Myaamia Name: Kihcikamihkwa

• Oklahoma Allottee

  Kansas Allottee

  Treaty Reserve Recipient

  Myaamia Language Source

  Nationality: Myaamia
  Family Group: Drake
• ID: 2624
  

  Gender: Female

  Date of Birth: Abt 1871
  Location of Birth: N/A

  Date of Death: Knw 10-28-1903
  Location of Death: N/A
• Biography/Notes:
  The first of the children of Milton and Jane Drake to be born after the Myaamia relocation to Indian Territory, Mary married George VanDusen, a cabinet-maker who had emigrated from Canada, on December 28, 1898. She and George had three daughters: Mabel, Ida, and Marchie. Mary died when Marchie was an infant, at just 32 years old. In 1909, George married a woman named Jennie Clark who helped raise the girls in Baxter Springs, Kansas.