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What Women’s Suffrage Owes to Indigenous Culture
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YES! Magazine - Democracy
One area where married and unmarried American women of all economic strata and races had parity was in voting.
The story of a White woman seeing a Native woman sell a horse appears in a few 19th century accounts.
The woman answered proudly, ‘I would not be a white woman!’ ”American women from New York to the Dakotas had eyes to see.
So Seneca women likely inspired a handful of White women to take up the mantle of women’s rights at Seneca Falls.
Some eight or so American women journeyed across the pond—with a large contingent of men—to represent the American Anti-Slavery Society abroad.
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