Margretta Dietrich

Born Margaretta Stewart in November 1881 in Philadelphia to Dr. William Shaw Stewart and Delia Stewart. Gertrude Dietrich, the daughter of Charles Henry Dietrich, also attended Bryn Mawr. They lived in Hastings, Nebraska. Dietrich died on January 13, 1961. Her home in Santa Fe, El Zaguan, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. ==Suffrage==

Dietrich was elected President of the Nebraska Woman's Suffrage Association in 1919 and became Chairman of the Nebraska State League of Women Voters in 1920. She reported in the November 1920 Alumnae Quarterly that she "was one of the Suffrage Emergency Corps to visit Connecticut in May," alluding to the unsuccessful campaign to get the state to ratify the 19th Amendment. Dietrich served as President of Nebraska Women's Suffrage Association from 1918 - 1920. She was also President and regional Director of Nebraska and National League of Women Voters 1920 - 1929. ==Restoration and preservation==

Dietrich moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1927 with her sister, Dorothy Stewart, an artist, which had been restored by Kate Chapman. Chapman restored and enlarged the house, including the addition of three cottages. The Stewart sisters used El Zaguán as an art gallery, hotel, and girls' school. It is now owned by the Historic Santa Fe Foundation, who rents out apartments to artists and writers. Dietrich preserved a number of historic homes on Canyon Road in Santa Fe. ==Advocacy and indigenous rights==

Dietrich continued her advocacy work in New Mexico for the Puebloan and Navajo people by lobbying against development of dams and exploration in villages. She was president of the New Mexico Association of Indians Affairs from 1932 until 1953 and member of the Indian Arts Fund. She raised funds for the New Mexico Association of Indians Affairs and developed programs to help Native Americans in the state. The association sponsored the Santa Fe Indian Club during World War II. Dietrich produced a newsletter to inform troops about their fellow New Mexican soldiers and what was happening on the home front, sent packages to the soldiers for Christmas, and generally sought to improve morale and support the Native American troops from New Mexico. She helped form the Indian Arts Fund and the Spanish Colonial Arts Society. She served as a trustee for the Laboratory of Anthropology (now the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture) and the School of American Research (now the School for Advanced Research). She amassed 234 Native American paintings by 104 artists and representing 15 tribal divisions. Her collection was shown at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and other museums and galleries. She was a patron for Native American art students of Dorothy Dunn (at the Santa Fe Indian School). Of a proposed dam site on Native American lands, she wrote: ==Publications==

Dietrich published three books in her lifetime and one was published posthumously. • Nebraska Recollections, self-published Vegara Printing Company, 1957 • The Dorothy Newkirk Stewart Memorial Collection, Museum of New Mexico Library, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1957 • New Mexico Recollections Part I, self- published Vegara Printing Company, 1959 • New Mexico Recollections Part II, Vegara Printing Company, Santa Fe NM, 1961, Editor Sylvia Loomis ==Notes==