Mrs. Marie L. Baldwin

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Mrs. Marie L. Baldwin

1914

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Photograph shows lawyer Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin (1863-1952), a Chippewa Indian who was the first Native American to graduate from the Washington College of Law in 1914.

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Baldwin, Marie L., 1863-1952

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Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin (b. Dec. 14, 1863, Pembina, ND-d. May 17, 1952, Los Angeles, CA) was a member of the Metis/Turtle Mountain Chippewa. She clerked for her father, J.B. Bottineau, a layer and advocate for the Ojibwa/Chippewa Nation in Minnesota and North Dakota. The pair moved to Washington, DC in the 1880s to defend treaty rights of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Nation. In 1904 she was appointed by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt as a clerk to the Office of Indian Affairs (the Bureau of Ind...