North Dakota is #StateoftheWeek! I took the quiz 👇and learned that ND was the 1st to elect a woman to statewide office. ðŸ‘
Find out more about women’s suffrage history in North Dakota! Test your knowledge with this state quiz!…
The Votes for Women catalog from @smithsoniannpg is my jumping off point for so much I didn’t know about Native feminists. “Like other people of color, Native women did not have the privilege of a single issue focus like suffrage.”…
Native American women (& men) couldn’t vote at all until the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924 - & states blocked Native voting up to today. See Vote. NARF. org More over the next days. I am writing from Lenape land along the Mahicantuck, trying…
The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy is the oldest participatory democracy on earth, and a matriarchy. Their model of women voting & leading inspired 1st wave white feminists who lived near Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga & Seneca lands in 1800s…