Sarah Mitchell Courchene
- Born: 1889, Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana
- Marriage: Philip Courchene on 31 Dec 1908 in Great Falls, MT
- Died: 25 Feb 1933 at age 44
 Cause of her death was inflammatory rheumatism.
General Notes:
She was only 46 years old at the time of her death according the Montana Death index
Members of the 1904 World Champions Fort Shaw Women’s Basketball Team pictured are (standing from left) Nettie Wirth, Assiniboine; Katie Snell, Assiniboine; Minnie Burton, Lemhi Shoshone; Sarah Mitchell, Assiniboine; and (seated from let) Genie Butch, Assiniboine; Belle Johnson, Piegan; Emma Sansaver, Chippewa-Cree. Not pictured are Genevieve Healy, Gros Ventre; Rose LaRose, Shoshone-Bannock; Flora Lucero, Chippewa.
Excerpt from Native athletes in sport & society: a reader
By C. Richard King
Playing forward on the expanded roster was fifteen year old Sarah Mitchell. Like many of her teammates, Sarah followed siblings to the school at Fort Shaw. The youngest of six, she was born to an Assiniboine-Chippewa mother, and an Anglo-Assiniboine father.
Noted events in her life were:
• Census: 1898. Sarh 9 years old in 1898
• School. this is the same Sarah Mitchell that was in the 1904 world chamionships basketball team from the Fort Shaw Indian boarding school
Sarah married Philip Courchene, son of Jean Louis Courchene and Marie Alphosine Azure, on 31 Dec 1908 in Great Falls, MT. (Philip Courchene was born on 10 Dec 1885 in Montana and died on 13 Aug 1963 in Family cemetery on his ranch.)
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