Marie Bottineau Baldwin Historic Marker, Pembina, ND. National Votes for Women Trail. William G. Pomeroy Foundation, 2020.
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Marie Bottineau Baldwin (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa) was born in North Dakota, lived and went to school in Minneapolis and St Paul. President Theodore Roosevelt appointed her to the Office of Indian Affairs (OIA), now known as the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in 1904. Bottineau Baldwin was a member of the Society of American Indians (SAI), a reform organization to work for rights of Indigenous people in the United States. She marched in the Women’s March for Suffrage in March, 1913. The other contributions she made to the women’s suffrage movement include: meeting with government officials, interviews with the press and talking with school groups.
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Alice Paul Nellie Griswold Francis Women's Suffrage Movement Sarah Tarleton Colvin - NWP MN State Chair |