To explore the historical legacies of the passage of the 19th Amendment one hundred years ago, please join us on Thursday, September 24th, 6:30 PM CST for

"Women Voted Here Before Columbus: The Haudenosaunee Influence on the Women’s Suffrage Movement."

During this virtual event, Louise Herne, a Bear Clan Matron of the Mohawk Nation and Haudenosaunee Knowledge Guardian, and Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner, author of the intersectional anthology 'The Women’s Suffrage Movement' (2019), will discuss the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) influence on early U.S. feminists.

They place the beginning of U.S. women’s rights a thousand years ago at the founding of the Iroquois Confederacy in present-day upstate New York. Women of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy possessed decisive political power, control of their bodies, control of their own property, custody of the children they bore, the power to initiate divorce, satisfying work, and a society generally free of rape and domestic violence.

Herne and Wagner will explore the ways Haudenosaunee women fired the revolutionary vision of early feminists, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage, by providing them with a model of freedom for women at a time when they experienced few rights.

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