Helen Moses spoke during opening ceremonies of Edith Monture Elementary School — named after her mom — in Brantford, ON, in June 2022
Kanien’kehá:ka woman Edith Anderson Montour was the first First Nations woman in Canada to become a nurse, the first Indigenous woman from Canada to serve in the U.S. military, and the first Indigenous woman to vote in a federal election. Edith Anderson Monture was an ambitious and determined Kanien'kehá:ka woman from Six Nations of the Grand River who made history in several ways.
First Nations people got the right to vote without relinquishing their Indian status in 1960. Inuit got the right to vote in 1950 but had little access to election services. Polling stations were not in all Inuit communities until 1962. Monture took the leap of faith and went to the school in New York state, completing her degree in 1914.
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