Sue M. Dickey Hough

Sue M. Dickey Hough

Sue M. Dickey Hough, 1923. From The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota (St. Paul: N.p., 1923).

Sue M. Dickey Hough and Myrtle Cain

Sue M. Dickey Hough and Myrtle Cain

State representatives Sue M. Dickey Hough (left) and Myrtle Cain, 1923. Photo by Marvin Ferree.

Minnesota’s first four female legislators

Minnesota’s first four female legislators

Group photo of the first four women state legislators in Minnesota (left to right): Mabeth Hurd Paige, Sue M. Dickey Hough, Myrtle Cain, and Hannah Kempfer. Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, April 22, 1923. Accessed on microfilm at the Minnesota Historical Society.

Campaign ad for Sue M. Dickey Hugh

Campaign ad for Sue M. Dickey Hugh

1922 campaign ad for Sue M. Dickey Hough for Minnesota state representative. Minneapolis Morning Tribune, November 6, 1922. Accessed on microfilm at the Minnesota Historical Society.

Sue M. Dickey Hough

Sue M. Dickey Hough

Sue M. Dickey Hough, ca. 1912.

Sue Dickey

Sue Dickey

Sue Dickey, ca. 1885.

Sue M. Dickey Hough

Sue M. Dickey Hough

Sue M. Dickey Hough, one of the first women elected to the Minnesota Legislature. Photo by the Star and Tribune Company, 1926. Minneapolis Newspaper Photograph Collection, Hennepin County Library, Minneapolis.

Margaret Brooks Thompson

Margaret Brooks Thompson

Margaret Brooks Thompson at the cornerstone-laying ceremony for Charles Thompson Memorial Hall in St. Paul, June 3, 1916.

Kegg, Maude (1904–1996)

In 1904, along Portage Lake, in a birch-bark-and-cattail wigwam, a baby named Naawakamigookwe (Middle of the Earth Woman, also called Maude) was born to Agwadaashiins (Nancy Pine) and Gwayoonh (Charles Mitchell). She took her first breath in the traditional Ojibwe home of her family. It was the beginning of a life guided by cultural traditions, continuous adaptation to a fast-changing world, and an inherent skill for interpreting her people’s culture and history.

Maude Kegg and four generations of her descendants

Maude Kegg and four generations of her descendants

Maude Kegg (seated at center) holding her great-great-granddaughter Desiree, ca. 1988. Also pictured are Kegg’s daughter Betty Kegg (above right); her granddaughter Victoria Verkennes (above center); and her great-granddaughter Kristine Verkennes, above left).

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