MichiganographyJan 26, 2023
#MichJournalist, #UAW writer and staffer, editor of #AFLCIO News, and general #BadassLadyOfMichigan, Frances Purvis D'Hondt born 1/25/1913.
MichiganographyJan 19, 2023
#Anishinaabe naturalist and #MichJournalist Etta Smith Wolfe Wilson died on 1/7/1936.
Her grandmother was #Odawa medicine woman, Kin-ne-quay. Wilson was the first woman reporter in Grand Rapids. http://www.historygrandrapids.org/photoessay/1682/etta-s-wilson-reporter-and-bir
Etta S. Wilson, Reporter and 'Bird-Woman'

The story of Etta Smith Wilson is a uniquely American one. Born in 1857, she was the granddaughter of Congregational missionaries and the great granddaughter of Odawa (Ottawa) Chief, Joseph Wakazoo. Etta’s parents, Mary Jane Smith, daughter of the m

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