Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin | |
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_2.jpg) Marie L. Baldwin | |
| Born | December 14, 1863 |
| Died | May 17, 1952 (aged 88) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Attorney, accountant, linguist |
| Employer(s) | United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, Education Division |
| Known for | First Native American student and first Native descent woman to graduate from the Washington College of Law |
| Parent(s) | John (Jean Baptiste) Bottineau, Marguerite Renville (b. Jan. 13, 1842 at Pembina) |
| Relatives | Grandparents, Pierre Bottineau and Genevieve "Jennie" LaRence, b. 1818, François Renville and Marguerite Dumas Belgarde; sisters, Lillian, b. 1867 and Alvina Clement, b. 1868 |
Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin (December 14, 1863 – May 17, 1952), was a Métis Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians attorney, Native American rights activist, and suffragist. In 1914, Baldwin was the first Native American student to graduate from the Washington College of Law. She worked in the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs,[1] and was an officer in the Society of American Indians.[2]
- ^ Marie Baldwin; Official Personnel Folders-Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs; Record Group 146: Records of the U.S. Civil Service Commission; National Archives, St. Louis, MO
- ^ Houghton, Louise Seymour. 1918. Our debt to the red man; the French-Indians in the development of the United States. Boston: The Stratford company.