Pimmie Pelayo of the ZonZoLi District has been selected as the 2024-2025 Osage Nation Princess. She is Sky Clan and was named by her Uncle Archie Mason. Her Osage name is WahKoTah, first daughter.
She will be crowned at 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 23 at the Hominy Indian Village Community Building in the Hominy Indian Village. The public is invited to attend.
“Pimmie will do a wonderful job representing the Osage Nation as our ambassador,” said Osage Tribal Director Chalene Toehay-Tartsah. “She comes from a long line of former Osage princesses. Pimmie always represents her family well and has shown herself to be a respectful and kind young woman. I’m happy for her and her family.”
The first Osage Tribal Princess was Margaret Luttrell Gray, who served in 1941. Since 1941, an Osage Princess has represented the Osage Nation every year at the week-long American Indian Exposition, held every year in August in Anadarko, Okla. The Osage Nation Princess will join other tribal princesses from more than 10 different tribal nations at the Exposition. They participate in banquets, fashion shows, pageants, are featured in parades, and are asked to give speeches about their tribal nations at various events.
Pimmie is a 2022 graduate of Charles Page High School. She resides in Skiatook, Okla., where she attends the Artisan Institute of Barbering, Cosmetology and Esthetics to become an esthetician. Pimmie enjoys helping others relax, enjoy their time for self-care and feel pampered. When she was little, she made all her family fill out and sign her self-made forms to receive services at “Pimmie’s Beauty Barn.”
She is the only daughter among six brothers: Gabriel, Isaac, Ian, Edward Jr., Henry Amos and Samuel. She assumes many responsibilities; she is a good sister and helps care for and boss her brothers as Osage women do.
Pimmie enjoys dancing during Inlonshka, helping her mother and auntie cooks while listening to their stories, laughs and fellowship. Her mother has been a ZonZoLi Committee cook since she was born and she hopes to be a Committee cook someday.
Pimmie is the daughter of Angela Pratt and Edward Gray of Skiatook and Jesse Pelayo of Phoenix, Ariz. Her maternal grandparents are the late Dr. Michael E. Pratt, Sr. and Patricia (Barnes) Pratt of Hominy, and the late Joe Pelayo and Mary Pelayo of Las Cruces, N.M. Maternal great-grandparents are the late Jerome and Angie (Malone) Barnes and the late Lottie (Shunkamolah) Pratt and Charles Pratt, Sr.
“We are so proud of Pimmie and excited for her. Being the only girl, she has always been our Osage Princess and now she gets to represent all of our people. She is kind, loving and enjoys her family and friends,” said her mother Angela. “I love to see her smile and I will never forget her smile the moment she was asked to be Princess. She talked to Chalene for a bit and when she got off the phone we gave each other the biggest, longest hug and I told her I’ve been waiting her whole life for this.”
Several of Pimmie’s grandmothers were Osage Princesses; Patricia Barnes Pratt, Jerri Jean Barnes Branstetter, Mary Barnes Monetathchi and Tammy Fugate Baldauff. Also, many more of her relatives, who are also Henry Pratt “No^Pah Walla II” and Morrell “O-Lo-hah-Moie” descendants served as Osage Princesses. She loves them, looks up to them and hopes to represent her WahZhaZhe NiKahZhi in the same manner.
She feels extremely honored and blessed to have been selected as the next Osage Princess. Pimmie looks forward to the year ahead representing her people in her Osage communities and all across Indian Country.
Once an Osage Nation Princess has served for a year, she becomes a member of the Osage Tribal Princess Sorority. She receives a shawl with her name on it and the year she reigned. The OTPS currently has more than 20 active members.
Former Osage Tribal Princesses:
1941 Margaret Luttrell Gray (deceased)
1947-48 Louise Shangreau (deceased)
1949-50 Mildred Bear Lunsford (deceased)
1951-53 Thomasine Green Moore (deceased)
1953-54 Fannie Mae Beartrack Donelson (deceased)
1955-59 Anita Lookout West (deceased)
1960 Kathryn Redcorn
1961 Beverly Wamego Brownfield
1962 Jerri Jean Barnes Branstetter
1963 RoseMary Shaw
1964 LeeAnn Yarbrough Ammons
1965 Kathy Roberts (deceased)
1966 Linda Maker Long
1967 Jan Nell Robinson Jacobs
1968-69 Mary Barnes Monetachi
1970 Alice Jake (deceased)
1971 Mary F. Hopper
1972 Patricia Barnes Pratt
1973 Renae Brumley
1974 Anita Eaves Maker
1975 Susan Shannon
1976 Julie Brave Standing Bear
1977 Tammy Fugate Baldauff
1978 Billie Carol Jones
1979 Carolyn Shannon (deceased)
1980 Tracey Moore
1981 Angela Satepauhoodle Toineeta
1982 Meg Standingbear Jennings
1983 Tracey Moore
1984 Margaret Shannon Sisk
1985-86 Olivia Gann Gray
1987 Jodie Revard
1988 Trish Alley
1989 Asa Cunningham Concha
1990 Danita Corneilson Goodwill
1991 Danene Lane (deceased)
1992 Joyce Oberly
1993 Welana Fields Queton
1994 Gina Gray Red Eagle
1995-96 Chalene Toehay-Tartsah
1997 Shannon Shaw Duty
1998 Jessica Moore Harjo
1999 Jennifer Standingbear Bighorse
2000 Sarah Megan Oberly
2001 Whitney Freeman
2002 Mary Bighorse Wildcat
2003 Tara Damron
2004 Randa Moore
2005 Julie Maker
2006 Frankee Cunningham Hammer
2007 Maggie Gray
2008 Alexandria Toineeta
2009 Erica Moore Cozad and Elizabeth Moore
2010 Vanessa Moore
2011-12 Dora Williams
2013 Autumn Williams Hall
2014 Katelynn Pipestem
2015-16 Alissa Hamilton (deceased)
2017 Jasmine Phetsacksith
2018 Alaina Maker
2019-2020 Leigha Easley
2021-2022 Gianna Sieke
2023-2024 Lawren ‘Lulu’ Goodfox
