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Robinson, Doane (1904). "History of Woman
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1661:"Native American Vote Suppression: The Case of South Dakota"
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949:"The road to women's voting rights in North Dakota"
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1609:"Woman Suffrage in South Dakota: The Final Decade"
1602:. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
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1408:"Timeline of South Dakota Suffrage, 1911-1912"
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1633:. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
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