Native American women influenced early women's suffrage activists in the United States. The Iroquois nations, which had an egalitarian society, were visited by early feminists and suffragists, such as Lydia Maria Child, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. These women discussed how Native American women had authority in their own cultures at various feminist conventions and also in the news. Native American women became a symbol for some suffrage activists. However, other white suffragists actively excluded Native American people from the movement. When the Nineteenth Amendment was passed in 1920, suffragist Zitkala-Sa commented that Native American still had more work to do in order to vote. It was not until 1924 that many Native Americans could vote under the Indian Citizenship Act. In many states, there were additional barriers to Native American voting rights. Influences on women's suffrage movement Early feminist movements in the United States were influenced by Native women, especially Iroquois women. In 1848, Lucretia Mott and her husband visited the Seneca people where she was able to see women living in a more equal society than in her own. When Mott visited friends in New York to plan the Seneca Falls Convention, she shared the stories about the Seneca's more equal treatment of women and their participatory role in tribal government. Iroquois women headed the family structures and both nominated and monitored the work of leaders in their communities. Mott also saw women in these communities work towards greater independence in their own lives. Matilda Joslyn Gage was also influenced by the structure of society in the Iroquois. Gage believed that Native societies lived in a way that was a model for creating a lasting peace in the world. She wrote articles in the New York Evening Post praising Native cultures like the Iroquois for the contributions of women to their society and their ability to make important decisions for the community. Lydia Maria Child also saw the social structure of Native Americans as "an alternative to patriarchy," and Elizabeth Cady Stanton referenced the culture of the Iroquois as being "matriarchal." Bear-clan mother of the Mohawk Nation, Louise McDonald Herne, stated that it was Native women who "showed white women what freedom and liberty really looked like." Alice Fletcher shared stories about the equal rights of women in Native American cultures at the International Council of Women in 1888. At the National Council of