Women Voted on this Land Before Columbus

Women Voted on this Land Before Columbus

Come join us at the Oneida County History Center for a captivating event showcasing the historical significance of women's voting rights. Discover the untold stories of women who exercised their right to vote long before Columbus's arrival. Immerse yourself in a journey through time and learn about the remarkable contributions of women in shaping our nation's history. Don't miss this enlightening event!

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.
About Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner:
Awarded one of the first doctorates in the country for work in women’s studies (UC Santa Cruz) and a founder of one the first college-level women’s studies programs in the United States (CSU Sacramento), Dr. Wagner has taught women’s studies courses for 53 years, currently in Syracuse University’s Honors Program. She is the Founding Director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation.
A major historian of the suffrage movement, Dr. Wagner has appeared on CNN, several PBS
documentaries and BBC, among others. Quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, Nation and Time Magazine, her articles have appeared in Ms. Magazine, U.S.A. Today and Northeast Indian Quarterly. Her books include The Women’s Suffrage Movement (Penguin Classics); Sisters in Spirit: The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on Woman’s Rights (Native Voices Press) and We Want Equal Rights: How Suffragists Were Influence by Native American Women, (7th Generation).
This lecture is part of the Voices and Votes project.

Voices and Votes is a Museum on Main Street (MoMS) exhibition developed by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. It’s based on an exhibition by the National Museum of American History. It has been made possible in New York State by the Museum Association of New York. Support for MoMS in New York State has been provided by the United States Congress and the William G. Pomeroy Foundation.

“A New Agora for New York: Museums as Spaces for Democracy” humanities discussion programs are made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Host or Publisher Oneida County History Center