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"The Women Voted": School Suffrage in Dakota Territory and South Dakota
In 1889, the newly passed South Dakota Constitution established women's right to vote in school elections.
January 2020
"A Right to Help Make the Laws": Helen Piotopowaka Clarke, Virginia Billedeaux, and Blackfeet Empowerment
In September 1914, the Suffrage Daily News of Montana interviewed Blackfeet activist Virginia Billedeaux, asking whether women in Indian country supported suffrage.
November 2019