Chief Earth Woman was a nineteenth century Ojibwa

Ojibwa

The Ojibwe or Chippewa are among the largest groups of Native Americans–First Nations north of Mexico. They are divided between Canada and the United States. In Canada, they are the third-largest population among First Nations, surpassed only by Cree and Inuit...

. She claimed that she had gained supernatural

Supernatural

The supernatural or is that which is not subject to the laws of nature, or more figuratively, that which is said to exist above and beyond nature...

powers from a dream, and for this reason, accompanied the men on the warpath.
She was born at around 1878 near Waterloo, Ohio as Birtha Snyder, Snider or Snidow. She married a man named "White Owl" in 1893, and she traveled from Ohio to frequently Michigan. She lived in Old Man's Cave while in Ohio.