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Sisters in Spirit: Iroquois Influence on Early Feminists

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by Sally Roesch Wagner


  , Woman, Church and State, Chicago: Charles Kerr, 1893; reprint ed., Aberdeen, South Dakota: Sky Carrier Press, 1998.

  _____________, “Woman in the Early Christian Church,” Report of the International Council of Women, Assembled by the National Woman Suffrage Association... 1888. Washington, D.C.: Rufus H. Darby, 1888, pp. 400-407.

  ______________, Woman’s Rights Catechism, The (Fayetteville, N.Y.) Weekly Recorder, 27 July 1871.

  Hale, Horatio, [ed.], The Iroquois Book of Rights. Philadelphia: D.G. Brinton, 1883; reprint ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963.

  Hewitt, J. N. B., “Status of Women in Iroquois Polity before 1784” in Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for 1932 . Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1933, pp. 475-488.

  Johnson, Elias, Legends, Traditions and Laws of the Iroquois.Lockport, New York: Union Printing and Publishing Co., 1881.

  Lucifer the Light Bearer, 13 March 1885.

  Marcellus Observer, 8 July 1949.

  Minor vs. Happersett, 53 Mo., 58, and 21 Wallace, 162, 1874.

  Morgan, Lewis Henry, League of the Ho-De-No-Sau-Neeor Iroquois. Herbert M. Lloyd [ed.]. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1904.

  “My Daughter,” The (New York) Revolutian, 22 January 1868.

  Myrtle, Minnie, The Iroquois; or, The Bright Side of Indian Character. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1855.

  New Northwest, (Portland, Oregon), 8 March 1872.

  New York Herald, 5 November 1905. Iroquois collection, Onondaga Historical Association, Syracuse, N.Y.

  Onondaga Standard, I 1 October 1890. Clipping File, Onondaga Historical Association, Syracuse, New York. Iroquois collection, Onondaga Historical Association, Syracuse, N.Y.

  Onondaga Standard, 8 January 1946. Ibid.

  Owen, Robert Dale, Free Enquirer Vol. 2, No. 1, p. 406; Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 200-201; Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 293-294; Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 155, 264; Vol. 3, No. 1, p. 112.

  __________, “The Moral Physiology” in BirthControl and Morality in Nineteenth Century America:Two Discussions. New York: Arno Press, 1972.

  Paine, Tom, “Occasional Letter on the Female Sex,” Pennsylvania Magazine,March 1775.

  Parker, Arthur C., The Life of General Ely S. Parker. Buffalo, New York: Buffalo Historical Society, 1919, quoted in “Her Word Was Law, Excerpts from Parker,” Indian Roots of American Democracy, Vol. IV, No. 4, Winter 1887, p. 70.

  ____________, “Iroquois Uses of Maize and Other Food Plants,” Education Department Bulletin, No. 482, November 1, 1910. Albany: University of the State of New York, 1910.

  ___________, “Woman’s Rights in America Five Hundred Years Ago,” Albany Press, 11 April 1909.

  Report of the International Council of Women . . . 1888. Washington, D.C.: Rufus H. Darby, Printer, 1888, pp. 237-241.

  “Report of the Proceedings of the Mississippi Bar Association, January 6, 1891,” printed in The Albany Law Journal, 5 March 1892.

  Resolution adopted by the National Woman Suffrage Association Convention, January, 1878, in The National Citizen and Ballot Box, August 1878.

  The Revolution(New York), 14 January 1869.

  Schoolcraft, Henry R., Notes on the Iroquois. New York: Bartlett & Welford, 1846.

  Seaver, James. E., A Narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, Who was taken by the Indians, in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amongst them to the present time. J.D. Bemis & Co., 1824.

  Shenandoah, Audrey. Speech at The Elizabeth Cady Stanton Annual Birthday Tea, 10 November 1991, Gould Hotel, Seneca Falls, New York. Sponsored by the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Foundation.

  Should Women Vote? Important Affirmative Authority, N.p.: Equal Rights Association, n.d.

  Skaneateles (New York) Democrat, 10 April 1883.

  Smith, Carroll E., Syracuse ,Village and City, Local History Leaflet No. 16. Syracuse, New York: Onondaga Historical Association, October 1897.

  Smith, Erminnie A., Myths oft he Iroquois,U. S. Bureau of American Ethnology, 2nd Annual Report, 1880-1881. Washington, D.C.: 1883; reprint ed. Ohsweken, Ontario, Canada: Iroqrafts, 1994.

  Snyderman, George S., “Behind the Tree of Peace: A Sociological Analysis of Iroquois Warfare,” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1948.

  Spencer, Herbert, Descriptive Sociology of England. London: Williams and Morgate, [1873].

  Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, “Blessing” in Margaret Stanton Lawrence “Reminiscences.” Stanton Collection, Vassar College Library, Poughkeepsie, New York.

  ____________, Letter to Lucretia Mott, 19 July 1876, quoted in History of Woman Suffrage Vol. 3, pp. 45-47.

  ____________, Letters to Sara Underwood, 19 October 1889 and 9 May 1889. Stanton Papers, Special Collections, Vassar College Libraries, Poughkeepsie, New York.

  ____________, “If You Would be Vigorous and Healthy” in M. L. Holbrook, M.D., “Parturition Without Pain,” appendix to George H. Napheys, The Physical Life of Woman:Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother. New York: M.A. Donohue and Company, 1927, pp. 365-366.

  ________________, “Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Socialism.” Chicago: The Progressive Woman, 1898.

  _______________, Susan B. Anthony and 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.

  ____________, “The Matriarchate or Mother-Age,” National Council of Women of the United States, Rachel Foster Avery [ed.], Transactions of the National Council Women of the United States, Assembled in Washington, February 22 to 25, 1891.Philadelphia, Pa.: 1891, pp. 218- 227. Stanton-Anthony Papers 28:1013-1017. Also published in The National Bulletin1, February 1891.

  ____________, The Woman’s Bible.New York: European Publishing Company: 1895; reprint ed., Seattle: Coalition Task Force on Women and Religion, 1974.

  Stanton, Henry B, Random Recollections.New York: MacGowan and Slipper, 1886.

  The State vs. Jesse Black,Supreme Court of North Carolina, Raleigh. 60 N.C. 266; 1864.

  Stern, Bernhard J., “The letter of Asher Wright to Lewis Henry Morgan,” American Anthropologist 35, 1933.

  Stone, William L., The Life and Times of Red Jacket or Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha; Being the Sequel tothe History of the Six Nations. New York and London: Wiley and Putnam, 1841.

  Syracuse Journal, 10 January 1866.

  Tehanetorens (Ray Fadden) to Sally Roesch Wagner, 23, November 1988. Personal Communication in collection of the author.

  _________________, “Wampum Belts,” Six Nations Museum, Onchiota, New York, n.d.; reprint ed. Ontario, Canada: Iroqrafts, Ltd., 1983.

  Turner, Orsamus, Pioneer History of the accountof the Holland Purchase of Western New York. Buffalo: Geo. H. Derby and Co., 1850.

  Vivian, John, “The Three Sisters: the nutritional balancing act of the Americas,” Mother Earth News, February/March 2001, p. 50-53, 114.

  Wagner, Sally Roesch, “The Iroquois Confederacy: a Native American Model for Non-sexist Men,” Changing Men19 (Spring/Summer 1988): 32-34.

  ___________, A Time of Protest: Suffragists Challenge The Republic 1870-1887. Aberdeen, S.Dak.: Sky Carrier Press, 1992.

  Wallace, Minor vs. Happersett, 53 Mo., 58, and 21 Wallace, 162, 1874.

  Yawger, Rose N., The Indian and the Pioneer:An Historical Study. Syracuse, New York: C.W. Bardeen, 1893.

  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

 

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