The New York home of Matilda Joslyn Gage, a woman who advocated for Native rights, women's suffrage and abolition of slavery, will be turned into a museum and learning center.

Gage (1826-1898) was adopted into the Wolf Clan of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe. She advocated for the federal government to honor its treaties with Indian nations and not to force U.S. citizenship on tribal people.

"That the Indians have been oppressed - are now, is true, but the United States has treaties with them, recognising them as distinct political communities, and duty towards them demands not an enforced citizenship but a faithful living up to its obligations on the part of the government," Gage wrote in 1878.

Gage's home, which will be preserved by the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, was a stop on the Underground Railroad. She was a founding member of the National Woman Suffrage Association.

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