[Aniwegi Boudinot]

This intriguing photo of a woman identified as Aniwegi Boudinot, a “Cherokee Princess” was published in conjunction with her attempts to become the first Native American woman to obtain a pilot’s license. The caption also notes that she was a nurse during the Spanish influenza outbreak, and that she is the grand-niece of Sequoyah, the important Cherokee polymath who independently created the Cherokee syllabary in 1821. However, Sequoyah died in 1843 so this relationship seems a bit tenuous. We can find no other information about Boudinot, save for a handful of newspaper articles that reiterate the above information.