Pembina in Pembina County, North Dakota — The American Midwest (Upper Plains)

Votes For Women

Road to the 19th Amendment

— National Votes for Women Trail —

Votes For Women Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, August 28, 2022

1. Votes For Women Marker

Inscription. Marie Bottineau Baldwin, born Pembina 1863. Ojibwa attorney, suffragist. Stated Native women had “virtual suffrage since time immemorial.”

Erected 2020 by William G. Pomeroy Foundation. (Marker Number 26.)

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Civil Rights • Indigenous Peoples and Communities • Women. In addition, it is included in the National Votes for Women Trail, and the William G. Pomeroy Foundation series lists. A significant historical year for this entry is 1863.

Location. 48° 58.372′ N, 97° 15.262′ W. Marker is in Pembina, North Dakota, in Pembina County. It is on State Highway 59 just north of West Rolette Street, on the left when traveling north. Marker is located along the walkway on the south side of the Pembina State Museum parking lot. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 805 North Dakota Highway 59, Pembina ND 58271, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in North Dakota’s Red River Valley

and in the Turtle Mountains.

It is also in the American Lewis & Clark Corridor,

on the prairies,

and

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on the Northern Plains.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once Rupert’s Land

and also the Louisiana Purchase.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 21 kilometers of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Walter Welford (a few steps from this marker); Pembina State Park (approx. 0.8 miles away); Dumoulin Church (approx. 1.2 miles away); Pembina - Emerson Area (approx. 2.4 miles away in Canada); Emerson Court House and Town Hall (approx. 4.7 kilometers away in Canada); Fort Dufferin (approx. 7.5 kilometers away in Canada); First Railway in Western Canada / Le Premier Chemin de Fer de L'Ouest du Canada (approx. 20.2 kilometers away in Canada); The Fish (approx. 20.2 kilometers away in Canada). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Pembina.

Another marker is no longer nearby. The March West / La Marche Vers L'ouest (was approx. 7.4 kilometers away in Canada but has been permanently removed).

Also see . . .
1. Marie Bottineau Baldwin.

In the early 1890s, Baldwin moved to Washington,
Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, August 28, 2022

2. Votes For Women Marker
(looking south • North Dakota Highway 59 in background)
DC, to fight for treaty rights for Native Americans. President Theodore Roosevelt appointed her a clerk in the Office of Indian Affairs. When Baldwin earned a degree from Washington College of Law in 1912, she was the school’s first woman of color and Indigenous woman graduate. She helped establish national alliances and networks of Native people as an officer in the Society of American Indians. She participated with other lawyers in the 1913 parade in Washington, DC, and was among the group of suffrage leaders who met with President Woodrow Wilson to enlist his support.

(Submitted on September 2, 2022, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)

2. Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin.

Early in her career, Marie believed that Native Americans needed to assimilate into European-American society to survive. Over time, as she became involved with the suffrage movement and the Society for American Indians (SAI), her views began to change. Instead of assimilation, Marie emphasized the value of traditional Native cultures while asserting her own (and therefore others’) place in the modern world as an Indian woman.

(Submitted on
Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, August 28, 2022

3. Votes For Women Marker
(looking northwest • Pembina State Museum in background)
September 2, 2022, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)

3. Marie Bottineau Baldwin.

Marie Bottineau Baldwin was successful in her work as an espoused Society of American Indians member who dedicated most of her life to advocating for not only the rights of women, but the rights of Indigenous people. Bottineau Baldwin flaunted the modernity of being a Native woman when she said in an interview that she took great pride in being able to say she had been not only in a canoe and prairie schooner to attend the talks she has given, but also in a plane.

(Submitted on September 2, 2022, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)

Marie Bottineau Baldwin image. Click for full size.

courtesy Records of the U.S. Civil Service Commission. National Archives, St. Louis., circa 1911

4. Marie Bottineau Baldwin

Credits. This page was last revised on May 31, 2024. It was originally submitted on September 2, 2022, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. This page has been viewed 503 times since then and 20 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on September 2, 2022, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. 4. submitted on May 31, 2024.