Laura Lykins (born 1869/70) was Oklahoma's first female lawyer. She was born on the Shawnee Indian Reservation in Kansas. Her mother was Caucasian whereas her father was the brother of the Shawnee chief

Blue Jacket Blue Jacket, or Weyapiersenwah (c. 1743 – 1810), was a war chief of the Shawnee people, known for his militant defense of Shawnee lands in the Ohio Country. Perhaps the preeminent American Indian leader in the Northwest Indian War, i ...

. Lykins graduated from the law department of the

Carlisle Indian School The United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, generally known as Carlisle Indian Industrial School, was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918. It took over the historic Carlisle ...

in 1898 before relocating to

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Oklahoma City (), officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, it ranks 20th among United States cities in population, an ...

. Later that same year, Lykins became the first female admitted to the Oklahoma State Bar.

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