University of Minnesota Student Coffman Gallery
Marie Bottineau Baldwin (1863-1952) a member of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, was born in North Dakota and grew up in Minneapolis. She worked as a clerk in her fathers law office and they eventually moved to Washington D.C. to fight for treaty rights. She initially thought assimilation was important and wore western clothing. She eventually changed her views and embraced the importance of traditional native culture and stopped wearing western clothing. She worked for Theodore Roosevelt in the Office of Native Affairs and was the agency’s highest paid Indigenous women. She eventually became a lawyer and supported the suffrage movement.
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