国立アメリカ歴史博物館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (国立アメリカ歴史博物館Instagram)「In 1919, while working as an attorney in the Office of Indian Affairs, Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin (Métis/Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) submitted this photograph of herself in Native dress to be included in her official personnel file. This portrait was just one of the many ways Baldwin resisted calls for assimilation, championed Native American rights, and invoked Native women’s power within their communities over the course of her decades-long career. Baldwin began her career at the Office of Indian Affairs in 1904 as a clerk and she steadily worked her way up. In 1912, in the wake of her father's death, Baldwin made the then radical choice to enroll in law school. In 1914, she became the first woman of color to graduate from the Washington College of Law, completing a three-year degree in the space of two years. Baldwin was deeply involved in Washington D.C.'s thriving activist community, where she became a leader in Society of American Indians . In 1914, Baldwin was part of a contingent of SIA members who visited the White House and presented a memorial to President Woodrow Wilson. Baldwin also joined the fight for women's suffrage. In 1913, she marched alongside other female lawyers in the headline-grabbing 1913 women's suffrage parade organized by the National Woman's Party. When asked if she was a suffragist in 1914, Baldwin laughed and asked the reporter: "Did you ever know that the Indian women were among the first suffragists, and that they exercised the right of recall?" Though many campaigned in support of 19th Amendment, most Native American women were unable to enjoy the amendment's benefits until the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924. Even then, multiple U.S. states prevented Native Americans from voting well into the 1900s. 📷: @usnatarchives #AmericanHistory #BecauseOfHerStory #19SuffrageStories #NativeAmericanHistory #WomensHistory #PoliticalHistory #SuffrageHistory #VoteHistory」8月10日 21時28分