Secret in the Open: WHITE WOMEN NEED RED WOMEN

The Untold Iroquois Influence on Early Radical Feminists: An intrepid historian tracks down the source of their revolutionary vision.

vulnerable Raven le Faye 

IS EOUALITY INDIGENOUS?

by SALLY ROESCH WAGNER

I had been haunted by a question to the past, a mystery of feminist history: How did the radical suffragists come to their vision, a vision not of Band-Aid reform but of a reconstituted world completely transformed? ~ Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner (1995) 


the Story

Woman Suffragist, Lucretia Mott said,
"We have never considered the wrongs of the Indians as our own. We have aided in driving them farther and farther west, until as the poor Indians say 'you will drive us away, until we go beyond the setting sun.' "

woman wading in the waters 

Iroquois Clan Mother Audrey Shehandoah 

Iroquois Clan Mother Alice Papineau Dewasenta once said,
"We are the givers of life. We own the land, the mother. We are honored in a ceremony four times a year with the changing of the seasons. The ceremony lasts six days and there are songs and dances especially dedicated to the mothers. Because a mother is a mother to everybody, we say Ethinoha'. It means 'our mothers,' an honorable word."