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Artist Credits
Page 5 Sally Roesch Wagner with grandson Tanner. Photo by Linda Roesch.
Page 9 Longhouse and the Tree of Peace. Artist Kahionhes (John Fadden), Turtle Clan, Mohawk nation. By permission of the artist.
Page 12 Mohawk holding wampum strings. Artist Kahionhes (John Fadden), Turtle Clan, Mohawk nation. By permission of the artist.
Page 21 Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
History of Woman Suffrage
Vol. 1, New York: Fowler and Wells, 1881; Vol. 2, New York: Fowler and Wells, 1882; Vol. 3, Rochester: Susan B. Anthony, 1886; reprint ed., Salem, New Hampshire: Ayer Company Publishers, Inc., 1985.
History of Woman Suffrage
Vol. 1, New York: Fowler and Wells, 1881; Vol. 2, New York: Fowler and Wells, 1882; Vol. 3, Rochester: Susan B. Anthony, 1886; reprint ed., Salem, New Hampshire: Ayer Company Publishers, Inc., 1985.
Page 25 Haudenosaunee family and longhouse. Artist Kahionhes (John Fadden), Turtle Clan, Mohawk nation. By permission of the artist.
Page 27 Woman makes offering. Artist Kahionhes (John Fadden), Turtle Clan, Mohawk nation. By permission of the artist.
Page 29 Iroquois woman and tree. Artist Kahionhes (John Fadden), Turtle Clan, Mohawk nation. By permission of the artist.
Page 31 War chief holding woman’s nominating belt. Artist Kahionhes (John Fadden), Turtle Clan, Mohawk nation. By permission of the artist.
Page 33 Three generations of the Wolf Clan. Artist Kahionhes (John Fadden), Turtle Clan, Mohawk nation. By permission of the artist.
Page 40 Matilda Joslyn Gage. Collection of Sally Roesch Wagner.
Page 41 Corseted and ornamental non-persons in the eyes of the law.
Godey’s Lady’s Book,
June 1855.
Godey’s Lady’s Book,
June 1855.
Page 42 Lucretia Mott.
History of Woman Suffrage
Vol. 1, New York: Fowler and Wells, 1881; Vol. 2, New York: Fowler and Wells, 1882; Vol. 3, Rochester: Susan B. Anthony, 1886; reprint ed., Salem, New Hampshire: Ayer Company Publishers, Inc., 1985.
History of Woman Suffrage
Vol. 1, New York: Fowler and Wells, 1881; Vol. 2, New York: Fowler and Wells, 1882; Vol. 3, Rochester: Susan B. Anthony, 1886; reprint ed., Salem, New Hampshire: Ayer Company Publishers, Inc., 1985.
Page 43 Bloomers on an American woman. “The New Costume,”
The Lily,
July 1851.
The Lily,
July 1851.
Page 43 Carolyn Mountpleasant, a Seneca woman, in traditional dress. “Gä-Hah-No, a Seneca Indian Girl in the costume of the Iroquois.” From Lewis Henry Morgan,
League of the Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee or Iroquois.
1901 edition.
League of the Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee or Iroquois.
1901 edition.
Page 46 Woman of the Beaver Clan. Artist Kahionhes (John Fadden), Mohawk nation. By permission of the artist.
Page 47 Family lineage traditionally was reckoned through mother. Pictograph represents John Fadden—Turtle Clan, Eva—Wolf Clan, and two of their sons, Don and Dave—Wolf Clan. Artist Kahionhes (John Fadden), Mohawk nation. By permission of the artist.
Page 52 Mother Earth, Creator of Life. Artist Kahionhes (John Fadden), Mohawk nation. By permission of the artist.
Page 54 “And when’er some lucky maiden.” Artist unknown. From Harriet S. Caswell,
Our Life Among the Iroquois Indians,
1892.
Our Life Among the Iroquois Indians,
1892.
Page 55 Ducks. Artist Kahionhes (John Fadden), Turtle Clan, Mohawk nation. By permission of the artist.
Page 60 Western women... [from] sacred creators of life-giving food to kitchen drudges. Drawing of the arrangement of the kitchen. From the first edition of
The American Woman’s Home,
1869.
The American Woman’s Home,
1869.
Page 62 Iroquois woman cooking. Artist Kahionhes (John Fadden), Turtle Clan, Mohawk nation. By permission of the artist.
Page 70 Matilda Joslyn Gage.
History of Woman Suffrage
Vol. 1, New York: Fowler and Wells, 1881; Vol. 2, New York: Fowler and Wells, 1882; Vol. 3, Rochester: Susan B. Anthony, 1886; reprint ed., Salem, New Hampshire: Ayer Company Publishers, Inc., 1985.
History of Woman Suffrage
Vol. 1, New York: Fowler and Wells, 1881; Vol. 2, New York: Fowler and Wells, 1882; Vol. 3, Rochester: Susan B. Anthony, 1886; reprint ed., Salem, New Hampshire: Ayer Company Publishers, Inc., 1985.
Page 88 The emblem of power worn by the Sachem is a deer’s antlers. Artist Kahionhes (John Fadden), Turtle Clan, Mohawk nation. By permission of the artist.
Page 91 We are left to answer for our women, who are to conclude what ought to be done by both Sachems and warriors. “Red Jacket, Sagoyawatha.” Artist Kahionhes (John Fadden), Turtle Clan, Mohawk nation. By permission of the artist.
Page 96 Woman stands behind fire. Artist Kahionhes (John Fadden), Turtle Clan, Mohawk nation. By permission of the artist.
Page 116 Feather. Artist Kahionhes (John Fadden), Turtle Clan, Mohawk nation. By permission of the artist.
Index
Adams, Abigail
Adams, John
agriculture
Akwesasne Mohawk Counselor Organization
Algonquin
Alleghany reservation
Allen, Paula Gunn
American Revolution
anarchy
Anthony, Susan B.
arrest and trial
birth control
civil disobedience
National Woman Suffrage Association
woman’s suffrage
Aztecs
battering, marital
beans
Beauchamp family
Beauchamp, Mary Elizabeth
Beauchamp, William
birth control, criminalization of
Blackstone
Bloomer
Bancroft, Hon. George
Borglum, Emma
Burnham, Carrie S.
Burr, Hattie
Canandaigua
canon law
capitalism
Cattaraugus
Cayuga
Cherokee
Child, Lydia Maria
childbirth
children “in sorrow thou...
as property
as clan members
custody of,
Native
oppression of
protection of
rights of
unwelcome
church
and freedom
and slavery
on marital rape
and woman’s rights
civil disobedience
civil rights
clan mothers
clan, matrilineal
Clinton, Gen. James
Clinton, Governor DeWitt
Code of Handsome Lake
common law
Comstock Law
consensus
Converse, Harriet Maxwell
Cook, Julius
cooking
Corbin, Hannah Lee
corn
Cornplanter, Chief
Council of Matrons
Crow Creek reservation
Dakota, Nation
Dewasenta (Alice Papineau)
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Rights of Women
Declaration of Sentiments
democracy
to all groups
Christian opposition to
Haudenosaunee and
representative
divorce
Haudenosaunee
Dvorak, Anton
Dwight, Timothy
Eaton, Harriet Phillips
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Foundation
Engels, Frederick
equality
examples of
Haudenosaunee
human
and language
natural
origins of
principal of
woman’s
Fadden, Ray (Tehanetorens)
feminism
see also
suffrage, vote, Stanton—revolutionary theory
see also
suffrage, vote, Stanton—revolutionary theory
challenge of
foundations of
origins ,
community
contemporary
1970s
spirit
terminology
theory
Vindication of the Rights of Women
vision
Five Nations Confederacy see
also
also
Haudenosaunee, Iroquois,
Onondaga, Mohawk, Seneca,
and Six Nations Confederacy
Fletcher, Alice
freedom
enemies of
intellectual
movement
political
religious
safety
spiritual
surging in their veins
true
woman’s
French fur trappers
French observers
Fugitive Slave Act
Gage, Matilda Joslyn
arrested for voting
citations
vision
“Do You Love Corn?”
“regenerated world”
Anthony’s arrest and trial
capitalism
child custody
disenchantment
employment equality
formative role in feminist theory
Haudenosaunee
influences
nation sovereignty
National Woman Suffrage Association
Five Nations Confederacy
organized religion-
place in history
pudding recipe
respect of Native ways
Six Nations Confederacy
society
Sorosis
state
tribes and nations
war
Wolf clan
woman’s rights
Woman’s Rights Catechism
Woman, Church and State
genocide
ginseng trade
God abolitionists
authority of man
Constitution
divine plan
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