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- ↑ "Gitxsan artist defied assimilation with art and cultural leadership". CBC. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
- 1 2 Gallery, Belkin. "Judith Morgan" . Retrieved 10 February 2017.
- ↑ "JUDITH MORGAN - FIRST NATION'S ART IN B.C.- BC ARCHIVES TIME MACHINE" . Retrieved 10 February 2017.
- ↑ Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.
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