Estelle Chisholm Ward (June 18, 1875 – December 9, 1946) was a Chickasaw teacher, journalist, and magazine publisher from Oklahoma.

[5] Her mother's parents were Ginny "Gincy" (née Colbert) and George Frazier McLish, who were of Chickasaw and Scottish descent.

[10] Ward was involved in politics and was elected as Johnston County Treasurer, as well as running several campaigns for Republican candidates.

They selected committee representatives, all men save Czarina Conlan for the Choctaw tribe and Ward for the Chickasaw, to draft a solution.

The women's task was to argue in favor of passage of a bill proposed by U.S. House Representative Wilburn Cartwright for sale of the coal and asphalt holdings, as well as continuing the restrictions of selling Indian lands.