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Special Event

Event

Women and the Indian Citizenship Act

Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument

Fee:

Free.

Location:

Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument, 144 Constitution Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002

Dates & Times

Date:

Saturday, June 29, 2024

Time:

12:00 PM

Duration:

1 hour

Type of Event

Talk

Description

One hundred years ago, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act into law. Join park ranger Susan in the library at Belmont-Paul for a conversation about the Indigenous women who advocated for U.S. citizenship that also preserved tribal culture and sovereignty. 

Reservation or Registration: No

Contact Information

Susan Philpott
202-365-1290
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Image Gallery

Head-and-shoulders photo of Gertrude Bonin wearing traditional dress with hair in two long braids
Marie Bottineau Baldwin seated in front of embroidered curtain in traditional dress
Head-and-shoulders photo of Gertrude Bonin wearing traditional dress with hair in two long braids
Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin), a Dakota Sioux Indian, ca. 1921
Library of Congress/ Book Illustration
Marie Bottineau Baldwin seated in front of embroidered curtain in traditional dress
Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, the first Native American to graduate from the Washington College of Law,
Bain News Service/Library of Congress
Tags: women's history indigenous history citizenship