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- ↑ "Mary Frances Garrigus (1891-1918)". Find a Grave.
- ↑ "Commencement Week at Billings High School Will Start This Afternoon". The Billings Gazette. May 26, 1912. Retrieved 2019-08-30.
- ↑ "First Native American woman UM law school grad was an Absarokee girl". Stillwater County News. 2019-04-18. Retrieved 2019-08-30.
- ↑ Szpaller, Keila (15 April 2019). "University of Montana kicks off Indian Law Week". missoulian.com. Retrieved 2019-08-30.
- ↑ Dedication and History, School of Law, Montana State University, September 6, 1961. School of Law. 1961.
- ↑ "Memorial Row". www.umt.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-30.