The daughter of a captive Lakota woman and the Kiowa war leader Red Otter, brother of the Kiowa Head Chief Lone Wolf, Laura was the mother of two sons with Etahdaleuh Doanmoe. She was the principal informant to the ethnologist James Mooney during his important study of Kiowa history. In 1898, she accompanied the Kiowa tribal delegation to Washington, D.C. as a delegate and interpreter. Later known as Laura Pedrick