In Memoriam - Sally Roesch Wagner - Sisters In Spirit: Suffragists and Native American Women

Our final episode of the season is an encore presentation, in memoriam, of the first episode of the season-- Sally Roesch Wagner and the Suffragists-Native American connection.

Sally Roesch Wagner passed on June 11 at the age of 82. She was an historian of women's history and the Women's Suffrage Movement, an author and an educator. She was the founding director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation and Social Justice Dialogue Center which honored the accomplishments of pioneering suffragist, Matilda Joslyn Gage.

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In this episode:

The Iroquois, alternatively referred to by the endonym Haudenosaunee, are a confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Lucretia Mott had formed friendships with Haudenosaunee women that enabled them to see the real possibility of creating a very different structure for their American culture, a matriarchal one, like the one that their Haudenosaunee sisters had experienced for generations.

We talk to Sally Roesch Wagner about this amazing story and how she discovered this overlooked pieced of American feminist herstory.

Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dawn "Sam" Alden co-host.