10 Facts About Beverly Horse

Beverly Horse was an educator activist for Native American and women's rights.

Beverly Horse was an enrolled citizen of the Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma and was a government administrator for women's programs.

Beverly Horse graduated along with classmate Chester Horse in 1949.

Beverly Horse worked for the Lawton School district before resigning in 1973.

Beverly Horse then worked for 23 years as the coordinator for the Displaced Homemakers Program at the Great Plains Technology Center in Lawton.

Beverly Horse counseled women to assist them with technical training or obtaining a General Educational Development, a high school equivalency certification.

Beverly Horse testified in 1985 before the governor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women, which was designed to study how to assist women who were trying to find a job but had no recent work experience.

Beverly Horse was a participant in several tribal forums to discuss the use of their assets by state authorities, against their rights to tribal sovereignty.

In 1996, Beverly Horse was recognized for her human rights activism by the Oklahoma Human Rights Commission.

Beverly Horse died on February 10,2010, at Lawton, and was buried the following day at the Mount Scott Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Cemetery in Meers, Oklahoma.