Submitted by Family
Kristen Leigh Pratt passed from this life on March 9, 2025, at the age of 39 in Tulsa, Okla. Kristen was a proud citizen of the Osage Nation and belonged to the Golden Eagle Clan. Her Osage name is E-Ne-Ah-Pe and she was named by Harry Red Eagle, Jr.
Kristen was born to Patricia (Barnes) Pratt and Dr. Michael E. Pratt, Sr. on January 18, 1986, in Tulsa, along with her twin sister Katherine Jean. She attended Hominy Public Schools until she graduated High School in 2004. She also attended the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. She worked as an Executive Assistant under the Chief Gray administration. Kristen then moved to Washington, D.C. to work for the National Congress of American Indians and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Kristen returned to live in Sand Springs, Okla., where she made her home.
Kristen was a devout Catholic and belonged to the Lottie Shunkamolah Pratt Chapter of the Native American Church. Kristen had many friends throughout the country and loved to travel. She always shared her big beautiful smile and a kind word with everyone she encountered.
Kristen is three-quarters Osage. She carried herself with great pride of being Osage and loved her people. She also enjoyed dancing during I^lonschka and at powwows across the country.
Kristen was a hard worker and took pleasure in sharing her knowledge of grants and tribal programs throughout Indian Country. She loved high heels and lipstick. She has been dressing up since she was a little girl and loved to walk around the house with her ‘clop clops’ on.
Kristen made many relationships from young to old. She was adored by many and will be greatly missed.
Survivors are her mother, Patricia (Barnes) Pratt of Hominy, Okla. Siblings, Michael E. Pratt, Jr., Nikki Jo Pratt, Courtney Pratt, and Angela Pratt. Also 16 nieces and nephews, and a host of other relatives.
Kristen was preceded in death by her twin sister Katherine Jean Pratt, her father Michael E. Pratt, Jr., maternal grandparents Jerome Barnes and Angie (Malone) Barnes, paternal grandparents Charles Pratt, Sr. and Lottie (Shunkamolah) Pratt and niece Jerri Jean (JJ) Buffalomeat.
Services will be held on Thursday, March 13, at the Friends Church in Hominy at 8 a.m. Followed by Mass at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church at 10 a.m. Interment at A.J. Powell Memorial Cemetery. Traditional meal to follow at the Hominy Indian Village Community Building. Her uncle Dr. Steven Pratt and Father Louis Abirieze are officiating.
Powell Funeral Home will be handling the arrangements. Friends and family may visit an online guest book and memorial page for Kristen at www.chapman-black.com.
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