The Untold Story of the Iroquois Influence on Early Feminists: Essays

vi, 48 pp. "The research of this nationally-recognized authority on the early woman's rights movement brings to light the astonishing fact that white women learned about women's rights from American Indian women. Considered nothing more than property in the Euroamerican tradition, early feminists knew native women who had respect, authority and power in their nations. The vision of suffrage leaders like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Lucretia Mott was shaped by knowing women who practiced rights of which they could only dream."