Laura Cornelius Kellogg: Our Democracy and the American Indian and Other Works (The Iroquois and Their Neighbors) Hardcover - March 31, 2015 by Kristina Ackley (Editor), Cristina Stanciu (Editor) 4 ratings Part of: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors (21 books) See all formats and editions Kindle $22.49 Read with Our Free App Hardcover Rooted in a traditional understanding of ancestral lands and a thousand years of Haudenosaunee democracy and self-governance, Kellogg envisioned transforming Indian reservations into cooperative, prosperous, self-governing communities, using local resources and fostering Indigenous businesses so Native Americans worked for themselves instead of for the exploiter. She was deeply opposed to residential schools, seeing them as a means to destroy traditional language and culture, and even worse as a means to sever connections between families, clans, and generations. Pronunciation of Laura Cornelius Kellogg with 1 audio pronunciation and more for Laura Cornelius Kellogg. "[24], The Washington Herald published an interview with Kellogg[25] where she supported women's suffrage, emphasizing Iroquois women's equality of civic powers with the men. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. In 1919 Laura Cornelius Kellogg traveled to Switzerland using a Haudenosaunee passport, where she demanded justice for American Indians at the League of Nations. Laura Cornelius Kellogg : Our democracy and the American Indian and other works / Show all versions (2) Bibliographic Details; Main Authors: Kellogg, Laura Cornelius, 1880-1947, Stanciu, Cristina Margareta (Editor), Ackley, Kristina (Editor) Format: Online Book: Language: English: Published: Kellogg proposed "Cherry Garden City" for the Oneida using the lands of the Oneida Boarding School. The Wisconsin Oneida formed the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and maintained ties to the Six Nations of the Iroquois in New York State. [71] Also in 1922, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in U.S. v. Boylan, denied New York state courts jurisdiction to dispose of Indian property or remove Indians without the consent of the federal government, returned a thirty-two acre parcel of land within the city of Oneida, New York, and confirmed the U.S. government's right to represent the Indians as well as the state's limited authority in Indian matters. The Iroquois had a communal system of land distribution and the tribe gave tracts to clans for further distribution among households for cultivation. Laura Cornelius Kellogg stood up against U.S. colonizing practices and represents our Haudenosaunee women in the fullest sense; we are women who've always had full autonomy over our minds,. Our democracy and the American Indian; a comprehensive presentation of the Indian situation as it is today, by Laura Cornelius Kellog (Wynnogene). Food from such lands, called kndi"gw'ge' hodi'yn'tho, would be used at festivals and large council gatherings. All of the Iroquois reformers have been traditionalists. Her graduation essay, "The Romans of America," compared the Iroquois Confederacy to the ancient Roman Empire. "Wynnogene, a real Indian princess, has gone to Washington to be the Joan of Arc for her people. An organizer, author, playwright, performer, and linguist, Kellogg worked. While Kellogg was exonerated of any financial wrongdoing, as a result of the arrest she was dismissed from the Society, "an injustice and humiliation she never forgave." She was a real troublemaker as seen by the US and tribal council supporters. [88] Since Kellogg's efforts in the 1920s and 1930s, litigation on Oneida claims in New York continues and several cases have been decided by the United States Supreme Court. The Society pioneered twentieth century Pan-Indianism, the movement promoting unity among American Indians regardless of tribal affiliation. "Six Nations Fight Decided in U.S. Court". In attendance were prominent Oneida attorneys Chester Poe Cornelius, her brother, and Dennison Wheelock. [63] Cornelius, known as "C.P. In July 1914, Minnie and Chester met Redbird Smith and his delegation while in Washington, D.C.[61] Redbird Smith was the spiritual leader of the Keetoowah Nighthawk Society, a traditionalist Cherokee faction who lived in isolated communities in the Wild Horse Mountains of northeastern Oklahoma. Ultimately, however, the reporter was even more impressed by her independent thinking. Laura M. Cornelius, "Industrial Organization for the Indian". Kellogg was an advocate for the renaissance and sovereignty of the Six Nations of the Iroquois, and fought for communal tribal lands, tribal autonomy and self-government. Volume: c.1 (1920) [New] [Leatherbound] de Kellogg, Laura Cornelius, 1880- y una gran seleccin de libros, arte y artculos de coleccin disponible en Iberlibro.com. There are old Indians who have never seen the inside of a classroom whom I consider far more educated than the young Indian with his knowledge of Latin and algebra. Fluent in Oneida, Mohawk, and English, Kellogg became a founding member of the Society of American Indians in 1911 and taught at the Sherman Institute in Riverside, California. More schooling than usually falls to the lot of an Indian woman and more contact with Caucasian artificiality and insincerity have graduated me into what might be called a polite Indian, and the process, I sometimes think, has taken a lot out of me.. Laura Cornelius Kellogg was an eloquent and fierce voice in early twentieth century Native American affairs. Kellogg lost a suit for control of Onondaga Nation tribal funds in 1927. On March 17, 1922, Assemblyman Edward A. Everett, of Potsdam, New York, Chairman of the New York State Indian Commission (19191922), presented the Everett Report, officially known as the Report of the New York State Commission to Investigate the Status of the American Indian Residing in the State of New York. This is one of the reasons that the Iroquois culture has endured so long. The Oneidas, under pressure from state and federal governments, were uprooted from New York in the 1820s and 1830s. Courtesy of Quarterly Journal of the Society of American Indians/Wikimedia Commons Less than a week later, Kellogg sent Everett a letter endorsing his report, condemning the Indian Welfare League, and making an offer to retain his legal services for in future litigation. Kellogg's reputation was not completely ruined. Later press articles billed Kellogg "Indian Princess Wynnogene." Genealogy profile for Laura Cornelius Laura Cornelius (1858 - 1940) - Genealogy Genealogy for Laura Cornelius (1858 - 1940) family tree on Geni, with over 245 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. While her message did not prove to be overwhelmingly popular, Kellogg did find a constituency among the Iroquois people. Perhaps Kellogg came by her combative communication style from her American education, or perhaps it was a by-product of her willingness to fight for traditional values at a time when ideas about assimilation dominated Indigenous cultures. [45] The model adapted contemporary Western ideas to traditional Native values. On January 31, 1914, Judge R. E. Lewis of the U.S. District Court at Denver, Colorado, upon hearing the evidence, ordered the jury to acquit the Kelloggs. Kellogg's campaign in New York was fraught with problems, and there was On 10 October 1925 a ceremony was planned for the scenic fields behind the former tribal school in Oneida, Wisconsin. Joined Jan 21, 2021 Messages 132,790 Reaction score 11,539 Points 113 Age 37 Location OneDDL grants 152,099 The movement promoted unity among American Indians regardless of tribal affiliation. So why has her story almost been lost? "This statue will stand on the land of the Cayuga Nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and it is our hope that Laura's words. Kellogg's plan also included some societal needs such as health care and recreation centers. After a four-year study from 1919 to 1922, the Everett Report concluded the Six Nations Iroquois were entitled to 6,000,000 acres (2,400,000ha) in New York, due to illegal dispossession after the 1784 Treaty of Fort Stanwix. After writing Our Democracy and the American Indian, Kellogg was once again recognized as a "leading crusader for Indian rights". "[23], In 1919, Kellogg appeared before the League of Nations calling for justice for American Indians. Ripples of Change, designed by renowned sculptor Jane DeDecker, will depict four activists whose work spanned generations, including Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Harriet Tubman, Martha Coffin Wright, and Sojourner Truth. "[12], In 1902, early literary ambitions led to the publication of two stories "The Legend of the Bean" and "The Sacrifice of the White Dog" in a publication of the Episcopal Church Mission to the Oneidas. The Bureau approved the plan, and Kellogg actively pursued loans from 1919 to 1924. An ardent abolitionist and activist leader, she supported Cuba's independence from Spain during the last half of the 19th century. [45] Society colleagues were skeptical of her proposal to promote the reservation as a place of opportunity, and many wanted to abolish the Bureau of Indian Affairs. In October 1922, after an extensive investigation and report by Kellogg, the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin announced that they would pursue a claim for 6million New York acres of land valued at $2billion. [29] This accusation came from the fact that Mrs. Kellogg had a history of using other people's money to fund her projects. Kellogg's Lolomi vision is realized in the success of the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin. When the school opened, it accommodated 80 students who stayed for an entire school year. In a speech to the Society of American Indians, an organization Kellogg helped found, she defended the value of an Indigenous identity founded on the knowledge of the elders. (Laura Cornelius Kellogg) galley (b. The Lolomi plan would allow the property of the tribes and individuals to be used for "education, health, and commercial development expenses".[52]. Laura Cornelius Kellogg stood up against U.S. colonizing practices and represents our Haudenosaunee women in the fullest sense; we are women who've always had full autonomy over our minds, bodies, children, and lands, while occupying the seat of authority in our government. Kellogg was a founding member of the Society of American Indians, a group that pioneered twentieth-century Pan-Indianism. COPYRIGHT 2013 University of Nebraska Press No portion of this article can be . An anonymous member of the Oneida tribe described Laura Cornelius Kellogg as a "ready borrower" with the "habit of making little touches wherever she finds any of her people" to a local newspaper called the Tulsa Daily World. She was also employed for a time in the Indian Service and similarly served on the Executive Board of the Society of American Indians. In contrast to his wifes high national and international profile, Orrin Kellogg shunned the spotlight, but he worked as a lawyer and advisor for many of the same Native American nations as his wife and the couples visions aligned. Laura Cornelius Kellogg, a member of the Oneida Nation, was a brilliant woman whose visionary intellect, charismatic oration, and incandescent style made her a 20th century It Girl who captivated the public on two continents. Our Democracy and the American Indian is a 1920 book in which Laura Cornelius Kellogg, a Wisconsin Oneida activist of the Six Nations Confederacy of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), lays out her . "there are old Indians who have never seen the inside of a classroom whom I consider far more educated than the young Indian with his knowledge of Latin and algebra". "We believe the greatest economy in the world is to be just to all men," she wrote. Her crusade and relentless agitation led to trouble with the law and arrests in Oklahoma in 1913 and Colorado in 1916.[14]. [64] In 1917, Cornelius pressed forward with the Lolomi plan. Gretchen M. Bataille and Lisa Marie, "Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, (2001), p.171. . Sam Smith, one of the sons of Redbird Smith, became chief of the Nighthawk Keetoowah Society, while Cornelius continued as spokesman and legal counsel. Like many other Indigenous leaders, her story was eclipsed by the narratives of European-Americans, and for Kellogg in particular the historical emphasis given to white feminists and anthropological perspectives of the vanishing Indian. The Oneida homeland was rich cherry-growing area and the construction of canning factory was to be source of economic development. Treaties and actions by the State of New York drastically reduced the Oneida land to 32 acres (0.13km2). [68] George Smith, fifth son of Redbird Smith, recalled, "C.P. Laura Miriam Cornelius was born in 1880 in a log home on a trail in the center of the Oneida Indian Reservation. She proposed turning Indian reservations into self-governing "industrial villages" with a "protected autonomy" that would interact with the local economy. "Indian Affairs Bureau Warns Six Nations as to Rights on State Claim". [59] Today, the former location of the Oneida Boarding School is the present site of the Norbert Hill Center of the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin. Laura Cornelius Kellogg was a founding member of the sai (serv- ing as the fi rst secretary of the executive committee), an activist, orator, linguist, performer, and reformer of Indian policy, as well as an author of fi ction, poetry, speeches, and essays. Reportedly, Kellogg thought her removal was "an injustice and humiliation". "'That Is Why I Sent You to Carlisle': Indian Poetry and the Demands of Americanization Poetics and Politics." [83] On July 4, 1937, Kellogg speaking at a Six Nations council in Hogansville, New York, spoke of her continued pursuit, "The Iroquois are struggling for a renaissance. [41], On April 34, 1911, at the invitation of Professor Fayette Avery McKenzie, six American Indian intellectuals attended a planning meeting at Ohio State University. Select search scope, currently: catalog all catalog, articles, website, & more in one search; catalog books, media & more in the Stanford Libraries' collections; articles+ journal articles & other e-resources [50], In short, Kellogg created the Lolomi plan in an attempt to "safeguard the Indian from the horde of white grafters now the bane of Indian existence". Fortunately for us and our readers, Brigit has penned a brief introduction to the work of Laura Cornelius Kellogg. During the 1920s and 1930s, Kellogg pursued her Lolomi vision by attempting to purchase the Oneida Indian Boarding School, advising Chief Redbird Smith and the Nighthawk Keetoowah, pursuing land claims on behalf of the Oneida and Six Nations and reconstituting the 18th century League of the Iroquois. The Society met at academic institutions, maintained a Washington headquarters, conducted annual conferences and published a quarterly journal of American Indian literature by American Indian authors. Claims come and go, clan mother keeps values. Laura Cornelius Kellogg (September 10, 1880 - 1947) Laura Cornelius Kellogg is an Oneida woman who became a global Indigenous activist. Philip J. Deloria, "Four Thousand Invitations", SAIL 25.2/AIQ 37.3 Summer 2013, P.28. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. Kellogg continued to speak and write with an incendiary honesty about the radical divide between American democratic principles and their actual treatment of Native Americans. Her ally attorney Edward A. Everett appealed for extension, but the property was finally sold in the Spring of 1924 and immediately given to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay. For her own people, Kellogg was a visionary who conceived of a flowering of Haudenosaunee culture through a return to tradition, not assimilation into white American culture, led by a restored and powerful Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The school was within 60 miles of her home at Seymour, Wisconsin, and provided a setting that included mostly non-Indian women. Grand councils were held at Akwesasne where Ms. Cornelius Kellogg spoke with passion. Laura Cornelius Kellogg was a founding member of the Society of American Indians and a member of the first Executive Committee. [13], Between 1898 and 1910 Kellogg continued her education, traveling for two years in Europe and studying at Stanford University, Barnard College, the New York School of Philanthropy, Cornell University, and the University of Wisconsin. "She would come here and stay at my mother's house," said Dorothy, who was a little girl when Kellogg would show up for visits, a traveler wearing . Media in category "Laura Cornelius Kellogg" The following 7 files are in this category, out of 7 total. A noted linguist, she spoke Oneida, Mohawk, and English fluently, studied Greek and Latin, and compiled a grammar of the Oneida language before graduating high school, an achievement that brought her national recognition. Believing that "the real nature and the real object of Bureaucracy is to make inefficient and dependent men and women", she sought to establish a protected self-government for American Indians through Federal incorporation into industrial communities. [5], Kellogg was the voice of the Oneidas and the Six Nations of the Iroquois on the national and international scene. Laura Minnie Cornelius Kellogg, the granddaughter of the famous Oneida leader Daniel Bread, was born in 1880 on the Oneida reservation in Wisconsin. Kristina Ackley Hauptman, 108-25. Sherman Coolidge, an Arahapo educator and Episcopal priest, wrote that tears came to his eyes to realize that we had a woman of brilliance among us and to think of the great good she could do for the Indian people., Renowned for her eloquence, Kellogg testified before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs several times in the 1910s and 1920s, testifying that the Bureau of Indian Affairs was corrupt and inefficient. An organizer, author, playwright, performer, and linguist, Kellogg worked tirelessly for Wisconsin Oneida cultural self-determination when efforts to Americanize Native people reached their peak. [49], Kellogg's Lolomi Plan was based the upon the Garden city movement of urban planning initiated in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom. Instead, Laura Cornelius Kellogg saw the future of Native American education as a meeting ground between traditional knowledge and Caucasian education, including support for Indigenous students pursuing higher education. [64] In 1916, through the efforts of the Kelloggs and local congressmen, a bill was introduced into Congress to allow the Ketoowah Society to incorporate as an industrial community, but it failed to pass. Laura Cornelius Kellogg ("Minnie") ("Wynnogene") (September 10, 1880 1947), was an Oneida leader, author, orator, activist and visionary. Kellogg also wanted to forge connections and begin a movement in America to work to reorganize Indian affairs. Kellogg's projects were often thought to be very risky what others called "self-serving"[31] Due to this claim, both of the Kelloggs were arrested with the charges of "Pretense of Indian Agents with intent to invest Indian funds". Prominent Native Americans, including Oneidas such as Dennison Wheelock, a renowned conductor, composer and musician, held opposing ideas about the importance of integration into American culture. She attended Grafton Hall, a private finishing school administered by the Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Laura Cornelius Kellogg stood up against U.S. colonizing practices and represents our Haudenosaunee women in the fullest sense; we are women who've always had full autonomy over our minds, bodies, children, and lands, while occupying the seat of authority in our government. [57], In 1920, Kellogg published a book about titled, Our Democracy and the American Indian: A Presentation of the Indian Situation as It Is Today, where she discussed her Lolomai Plan, later spelled Lolomi, which means "perfect goodness be upon you" in the Hopi language. Laura Cornelius Kellogg Our Democracy and the American Indian and Other Works. [35] Kellogg criticized Buffalo Bill Cody in New York for his stereotypical performances of Indian people. Soon after the loss of her clan mother, Kellogg decided to return to the traditional practices of her tribe. Kellogg presented a formal paper entitled "Industrial Organization for the Indian", where she proposed turning Indian reservations into self-governing "garden cities" with a "protected autonomy" that would interact with the market economy. She also understood traditional values as a means to support and honor Haudenosaunee women. [70] During this time, Kellogg focused on two major issues: compliance with the Six Nations Laws and the advancement of land claiming rights. [48], Kellogg's overall political activism seems to have generated scorn from Society conservatives and members employed in the Indian service. Laura Cornelius Kellogg by Laura Cornelius Kellogg (author), Kristina Ackley (editor), Cristina Margareta Stanciu (editor), Laura Cornelius Kellogg and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. There is something behind the superb dignity and composure of the old bringing up; there is something in the discipline of the Red Man which has given him a place in the literature and art of this country, there to remain separate and distinct in his proud, active bearing against all time, against all change.. [58] Her book was "lovingly dedicated" to the memory of Chief Redbird Smith, spiritual leader of the Nighthawk Keetoowah (Cherokee), "who preserved his people from demoralization, and was the first to accept the Lolomi.". After the 1913 Denver Conference, Kellogg was no longer listed as a member of the Society. For over twenty years, Kellogg pursued land claims for the Oneida and Six Nations, and worked to develop garden city communities for the Oneida Indian Reservation in Wisconsin and for the Keetoowah Nighthawk Society of Oklahoma. She helped win the Paul Diabo case in the US Supreme Court which recognized the aboriginal right to cross the border and thereby saved the economic lives of thousands of Mohawks. Kellogg asserted that this was a frame-up instigated by the Indian Bureau, "Another move in the game now being played in Osage County between the Department of the Interior, various big factors in the oil world, and the advance guard of the Robinson investigating committee." Laura Cornelius Kellogg was a founding member of the Society of American Indians and a member of the first Executive Committee. At a national meeting in 1911, before this group of renowned Indigenous intellectuals and activists, she presented her vision of transforming reservations into self-governing market cities surrounded by green belts. Once again she spoke in proud terms of the Six Nations, of her plans for their economic, political and spiritual revival, of her hatred for the Bureau, whom she now accused of spreading pernicious and criminal propaganda against her and the Iroquois. During the 1920s and 1930s, Kellogg and her husband, Orrin J. Kellogg, pursued land claims in New York on behalf of the Six Nations people. [60], From 1914 to 1923, Kellogg and her older brother Chester Poe Cornelius managed a Lolomi Plan for the Keetoowah Nighthawk Society in Oklahoma. Lawyer Marie Bottineau Baldwin (Ojibwe/Chippewa), musician and writer Gertrude Bonnin (Yankton Dakota), also known as Zitkla-, and speaker and author Laura Cornelius Kellogg (Wisconsin Oneida) all began their activism by fighting federal policy that held Indigenous Americans as wards of the state, denying them basic civil rights unless . Her intelligence, conviction and charisma made her a cultural star and media darling. January 31, 1921, ONDLM. In October 1927, a class action suit, James Deere v. St. Lawrence River Power, filed in 1925 in United States District Court for the Northern District of New York on behalf of the Six Nations to eject a subsidiary of Alcoa Aluminum and other occupants from a small parcel of land, was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. However, because of disagreements within the Oneida, she was unable raise the funds. The white people was scared of him all the time, watching what he was doing with the Keetoowahs. [44], On October 12, 1911, at the inaugural meeting of the Society on the campus of the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, Kellogg proclaimed, "I am not the new Indian; I am the old Indian adjusted to new conditions." Access. She advocated a bill introduced by Senator Harry Lane from Oregon that would abolish the Bureau of Indian Affairs and replace it with a commission, under direct control of Congress, to consist of three men selected from among five nominees chosen by a council of Indians. Kellogg explained, "All successful organization is based on likeness of kind. She condemned the irresponsibility of Indian Office personnel and the misuse of government funds, declaring that in her Lolomi Plan for revitalizing reservations, the huge sums paid [to] white people would be paid instead to the Indians themselves.. The event was expected to accomplish a number of goals: it would assert political authority by a group of Oneidas, establish traditional leadership of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy locally, and affirm the Wisconsin Oneida's ties to the Confederacy to tribal and . [64] Restrictions were removed from several allotments and they were mortgaged to fund and establish a bank in Gore with Cornelius as president. Laura Cornelius Kellogg was an eloquent and fierce voice in early twentieth century Native American affairs. Kellogg argued the Oneida Boarding School should continue to provide education to Oneida children and proposed a plan to use the school and grounds as an education and industrial center. Ewen, Alexander and Jeffrey Wollock, "Kellogg, Minnie.". "[16] While in London, Kellogg requested in a letter to the U.S. Department of the Interior that she be presented at Court. In 1911, Kellogg made a tour of Indian reservations across the country to promote interest in transforming reservations into garden cities. Laura Cornelius Kellogg was an eloquent and fierce voice in early twentieth century Native American affairs. After the Society's Columbus meeting in 1911, the New York Tribune hailed Cornelius as a scholar, a social worker, "one of the moving spirits in the new American Indian Association, " and "a woman of rare intellectual gifts. [54] The Indian community could resolve issues better than the white communities because of the homogeneity set forth by Lolomi plan. "[28], On April 22, 1912, Laura Cornelius married Orrin J. Kellogg,[29] an attorney of distant Seneca ancestry. Member. An organizer, author, playwright, performer, and linguist, Kellogg worked tirelessly for Wisconsin Oneida cultural self-determination when efforts to Americanize Native people reached their peak. Laura Cornelius Kellogg , was an Oneida leader, author, orator, activist and visionary. Laura Cornelius Kellogg Our Democracy and the American Indian and Other Works Edited by Kristina Ackley, Cristina Stanciu Paper $29.95s | 9780815637561 Add to cart Hardcover $39.95s | 9780815633907 Add to cart eBook $29.95s | 9780815653141 Add to cart Subjects: women's and gender studies, Native American and Indigenous studies In 1915, Chester Cornelius returned to Oklahoma to join Chief Smith and the Society. Given the harsh treatment of centuries and the political and cultural environment in the 1920s and 1930s, this was the work of a true visionary. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laura_Cornelius_Kellogg&oldid=1141618786, Members of the Society of American Indians, Columbia University School of Social Work alumni, Articles with unsourced statements from June 2015, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 23:42. [73] TOP Alpha and Omega. [51] The federal government could offer protection for the Indians' assets at the state level. In some ways she was a polarizing figure among Native nations due to her passionate intensity and unwavering commitment to her vision. He was a good man, but the white people were against him, and we had some bad luck. Robert K. Thomas, "The Origin and Development of the Redbird Smith Movement", (hereinafter "Thomas"), Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, (1954), p.182. With the Lolomi movement, of which she is the founder, she proposes to lead 300,000 Indians out of what she calls "the bondage of bureaucracy into the self-respect of complete self-government. Nevertheless, Kellogg's rival council attempted to operate well into the late 1930s. For Womens History Month we revive the story of this foremother who used traditional wisdom to envision a future with politically and economically independent Native nations across Turtle Island. 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