Marie Baldwin, Racism, and the Society of American Indians

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.44.1.lewandowski" target="_blank" >10.17953/aicrj.44.1.lewandowski</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Marie Baldwin, Racism, and the Society of American Indians

Original language description

The French/Ojibwa lawyer, activist, and Office of Indian Affairs employee, Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin (1863–1952), often receives mention in scholarly works on the Society of American Indians (SAI). Very few, however, have examined her contributions in detail. Only one article focusing exclusively on Baldwin, Cathleen D. Cahill’s “Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin: Indigenizing the Federal Indian Service” (2013), has ever been published. Cahill’s flattering portrait depicts Baldwin as a devoted suffragette and leading SAI figure, whose roles as co-founder and treasurer promoted the cause of Indian rights and her own Ojibwa values concerning women’s equality. Baldwin’s sudden exit from the SAI, Cahill explains, was a result of attacks from male, anti-Indian Office “radicals” such as arlos Montezuma (Yavapai) and Philip Gordon (Ojibwa), who condemned her as disloyal for holding a government post. Closer inspection of the SAI’s conference proceedings and pistolary record reveals a much different story. In providing the first full account of Baldwin’s involvement in intertribal activism, this essay counters Cahill’s inaccurate interpretation of Baldwin’s withdrawal from the Society, and—more importantly—examines Baldwin’s under-reported yet openly racist campaign among key SAI members to ban African Americans from the Indian Service. Baldwin’s incendiary statements on race, in turn, provide a point of departure for scholars to study further how the Society of American Indians viewed African Americans during the Progressive era, with its intense segregation and prevailing social Darwinist theories of race.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

American Indian Culture and Research Journal

ISSN

0161-6463

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

44

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

35-52

UT code for WoS article

000653806400003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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