Women voted on this land before Columbus
What inspired the suffragists to think they could create a world where women could be agents of their own being? The surprising answer may lie with the sovereign women of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy of six nations (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora) in upstate New York, who showed their settler neighbors how a society that empowered women worked.
Lecture by Matilda joslyn Gage Founding Director, Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner.
December 7th @ 2pm, Oneida County History Center, 1608 Genesee St, Utica, NY, 13502
