EPISODE 4: VOTING RIGHTS, VOTING WRONGS (Part i)

In this episode, we try to figure out even where to begin the story of women's suffrage... spoiler alert: it doesn't start with white women! Join us in learning about the powerful "uterine voice" of the Haudenosaunee women (shout out to Louise Wahkehrakats:te Herne, Mohawk Clan Mother of the Bear Clan, for that incredible turn of phrase) and the ancient political power of Native women that inspired white suffragists... many of whom then ignored the U.S. government's systematic disavowal of Native sovereignty and abuse of Native Peoples as their own rights expanded. So much toxic white lady-ness, so little time. 

Resources mentioned in this episode include: 

• Sally Roesch Wagner's anthology The Women's Suffrage Movement and Sisters In Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on Early American Feminists
• Lisa Tetrault's The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
• Veronica Chambers' and the Staff of The New York Times' Finish the Fight: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
• The documentary film Without A Whisper directed by Katsitsionni Fox
• Eve Tuck and K.Wayne Yang's article "Decolonization Is Not A Metaphor" 
• PBS' Molly of Denali

The Haudenosaunee Confederacy (native-land.ca)

By Joseph Keppler (1914)--Library of Congress