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North Dakota Suffragists: Marie Bottineau Baldwin
Marie Bottineau Baldwin was both a suffragist and Native American rights activist. She sought to educate people about women’s traditional political rights in Native society. Continue reading
Legal Codes & Talking Trees
Through their gendered articulations of justice and power, each of these women challenged the legal violence of settler-colonial place-making in an era of dispossession, and rural communities continue to grapple with the legacies of these challenges in their efforts to not only survive, but thrive in the twenty-first century. Continue reading
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Tagged history, indigenous peoples, law, research, settler colonialism, social justice
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“This is all the home I now have”: Deserted and Widowed Homesteaders
Women homesteaders … pressed the bounds of imposed limitations with and sometimes without the help of their male counterparts. The women homesteaders in the Study Area also press the bounds of current homesteading scholarship. Continue reading
Posted in New Books, Sources for Research
Tagged family, history, homesteading, land ownership, law, migration
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