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Show i INDIAN WOMEN HAVE HAD VIRTUAL SUFFRAGE ! WASHINGTON, J t Tha la. ' d,aa woraaa ad luff ra gat te Bwy b rarrar,tod ia th pnffraawtta parad kar Marrk I. Mr. Maria U B. Maid-wia. Maid-wia. a Chippewa. oaatd with tb InrUaa btiraao, ha bea aattad to or-ran or-ran for aont aort of a float whlrk i. a - ik. I rA i m woman aa la nuuu . . . . farnr of U rotiaff right. "I kar aot rat dartdod." Mtt Raid aHa aaid today, whethar I will obey iba roquaat af th pared arranfwr or ' aot. At tor th ladle women, they bare had virtual etirfra, alao th j power of recall, ware time immemorial. ! Whaeewer they war diaaatiafled with a rhirf ot a tribe all they had t do mu te atak their wiahoa haowa and ha waa promptly 'rweaHod.' i "And aa to Totlnf. I do sot know tkat thar exerrtaed th rlifbt oft, hut it amounted to tha aarae thing, for ! lk. would Infena tholr mem what they waatnd and th reault of th eleetioa ' iiaiiallr abowed that Iheir wiaha had prraild." |