As an adult, she argued for Native American
citizenship, which was granted in 1924, and
founded the National Council of American
Indians to unite tribes in the fight for the vote.A member of the Yankton Dakota Sioux,
Zitkala-Sa gave a speech advocating
women’s rights when she graduated from the
missionary boarding school she attended.Zitkala-
SA
Wcate for Native Amriter, musician, and advo-erican
Gertrude Simrights; also known as mons Bonnin
GERTRUDE KÄSEBIER, NATIONAL MBETTMANN/GETTY (ZITKALA-SA); NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (RESERVATION VIEWUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION (ZITKALA-SA W); ITH VIOLIN);
LOC (BUILDING); NATIONAL ARCHIVES (CITIZENSHIP DOCUMENT); FRANK MUCKENHEIM, ALAMY (VIOLIN)Hawaiian suffragistit was a territory at the time. The Hawaiian
Senate passed a suf-frage bill in 1919, but the
House balked. Hawaiian women had to wait until
the 19th Amendment for suffrage.A member of Hawaii’s royal family, Dowsett
successfully pushed for the chance to have
Hawaiians, not the U.S. government, decide
whether women could vote in elections there;Wilhelmina
KEKELAOKALANINUI WIDEMANN
DOWSETT
MEGAN SPRINGATE, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (STAR); SMPIXABAY (HAWAII MOUNTAINS); WATERFRAMITH COLLECTION/GADO/GETTY (AME/ALAMY (FLAG); ENDMENT);
LOC (SUFFRAGISTS); KEVIN SCHAFER, ALAMY (BIRD)