The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is down to its last original Dawes enrollee, a 107-year-old woman.

Lula M. Hickey Hall was born in 1904. Along with other family members, she was allotted 80 acres as part of the federal government's effort to break up the tribe's land base.

Hall moved to Colorado when she was young after her father sold the family's allotments. She moved back to Oklahoma, where she had most of her children, then to California, and then back to Oklahoma after her husband died in 1972.

“She was a good mother,” her son, Kenneth, told The Cherokee Phoenix. “She was a good cook, very religious, and a yellow-dog democrat from day one. She raised us kids to respect hard work and be honest."

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CN down to its last original Dawes enrollee (The Cherokee Phoenix 3/20)