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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.
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.
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.
Page 43 Bloomers on an American woman. “The New Costume,”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
 
challenge of
 
foundations of
 
origins ,
 
community
 
contemporary
 
1970s
 
spirit
 
terminology
 
theory
 
Vindication of the Rights of Women
 
vision
 
Five Nations Confederacy see
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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