Almeda Jones St. Clair (February 28, 1868 – December 8, 1952), also known as Amelia St. Clair, was an American Indigenous Christian missionary, teacher, translator, and expert lacemaker,[1] whose lace work was shown at the 1900 Paris Exposition, and presented to Queen Alexandra.
She married Henry Benjamin Whipple St. Clair, a Sioux Protestant Episcopal clergyman,[3] in 1889.
They had thirteen children together,[4] and celebrated fifty years of marriage together in 1939, at a community event at the Birch Coulee Indian Mission in Minnesota.
[5] As a minister's wife,[5] St. Clair taught and worked in various indigenous communities in the Upper Midwest.
She taught lacemaking at Bishop Whipple Mission in Minnesota,[2] initially as assistant and translator for missionary Susan Salisbury.