Civil Rights Activist, Author. She was a Native-American civil rights activist of the early 20th century. Her public service career involved helping Native Americans in nine states. Born and raised on a farm in Delaware County, District of Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory in Oklahoma, her mother was of Irish ancestry and her father was a Cherokee. Her father's ancestors had been moved from Georgia to Oklahoma in the Trail of Tears. In the Curtis Act of 1898, a treaty was broken between the Federal government and five tribes of Native Americans, causing the loss of thousands of acres of land and water rights, thus directly affecting her father's family. She graduated from Oklahoma Institute of Technology in 1916 before going to Washington, D.C. In 1923 wearing Native American attire, she was part of the Committee of 100 on Indian Affairs, meeting with United States President Calvin Coolidge. She presented President Coolidge with Gustavus Elmer Emmanuel Lindquist′s book " The Red Man in The United States." As a beautiful and poised young lady, she gave a speech that day addressing President Coolidge directly with her concerns. She was later invited to the White House to have lunch with President Coolidge. The Native American attire, which she worn that day, was made by the Cheyanne bead workers and is on exhibit at Philbrook Museum in Oklahoma. In 1923, she enrolled as a junior at Mount Holyoke College, a women's college in Massachusetts, with a full scholarship, graduating in 1925 with a BA in English. She was the third Native American student to graduate from this college. During this time, she published collections of poetry under the name of Ruth Margaret Muskrat about Native American life: "Songs of the Spaviaw" in 1920, "The Hunter's Wooing" in 1921, "Sonnets from the Cherokee" in 1922, and "If You Knew" in 1923. After her college graduation, she taught English at a non-reservation Native American school, Hashell Institute in Kansas, and attempted to maintain the Native American culture. She taught her Christian faith as a Sunday School teacher. She married John F. Bronson, an engineer, and the couple adopted a Native-American daughter. Starting in 1931, she served as the first Guidance Placement Office of the Bureau of Affairs. In 1937, she was awarded the Indian Achievement Medal of the Indian Council Fire, the second woman to have received the award since its inception. In 1947 she served as the executive secretary for the National Congress of American Indians. In 1955 she was elected as treasurer of the National Congress of American Indians, assisting the awarding of scholarships. In 1957 she moved to Arizona, where she became a specialist for the Indian Health Service, and upon her retirement in 1962 received from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare the coveted Oveta Culp Hobby Service Award. During her career, she authored "Indians Are People Too" in 1944, "The Church in Indian Life" in 1945, and "Shall We Repeat Indian History in Alaska?" in 1947. Although a stroke in 1972 slowed her efforts, she continued to be an advocate for Native American Civil Rights for the rest of her life. In 1978, Bronson was among the recipients of the National Indian Child Conference's merit award for commitment to improving children's quality of life. She died four years later. Her story was part of the 2020 PBS television series, "Women's Work," and in 2019, her great niece presented to the television show "Antique Roadshow" her 1923 Native American beaded white deerskin dress and moccasins, which was appraised at $12,000. Her 1921 poem, "The Hunter's Wooing," reads: "And then we'll go home, my Cherokee Rose, Where the Senecas live in the heart of the hills by the rippling Cowskin, where the Saulchana grows, We'll go home to the Coyauga hills, To the sheltering Coyauga hills."