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[underwater sounds]

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-[ Singing in Native language ]

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♪♪

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♪♪

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♪♪

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-I would pay a million dollars
to know what my grandmothers,

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great grandmothers were doing
when Columbus arrived,

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or when the Revolutionary War
was going on,

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or when the War of 1812
was going on through here.

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I would give anything to know

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what those women
were going through.

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It was never written about.

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We have to go in search of,

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and almost have to begin,
at this point,

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to tell our stories,

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so that we leave
a really rich inheritance

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for our great-great
granddaughters

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and our great-great grandsons.

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♪♪

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[ Horns honk in distance ]

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♪♪

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-Give me your arm.
-Yeah, take my arm.

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[ Indistinct conversations ]

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♪♪

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[ Conversations continue ]

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-Women\'s rights began
with suffragists.

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-That is a major myth.

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The reality is that women
had political voice on this land

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a thousand years ago.

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-[ Woman cheers ]
[ Scattered cheers ]

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[ Applause ]

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-And that is not past tense,

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because Louise carries on

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a thousand-year-old tradition.

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-Growing up, I learned about,
I think, Susan B. Anthony

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and Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
maybe.

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I had no idea
that Native women, in fact,

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had political power
in this country long before.

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-I remember growing up
and listening to the grandmas,

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and...

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them hearing about feminism.

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My grandma would say,
\"We\'re not feminists.

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We\'re the law.\"

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[ Laughter and applause ]

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-[ Singing in Native language ]♪♪

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♪♪

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-[ Speaking Native language ]

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-When the Statue of Liberty
was unveiled

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in New York Harbor
in 1886,

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they said,
\"Look at the hypocrisy here.

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Liberty is represented
as a woman

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in a country
where not a single woman

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has political liberty.\"

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[ Crowd cheering ]

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♪♪

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-The women\'s rights movement
was born here

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in Seneca Falls in 1848,

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and I\'m proud that we live up
to the legacy in New York.

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[ Crowd cheering ]

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-[ Speaking Native language ]

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Greetings to you today

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on behalf of
the Mohawk Nation

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and the Haudenosaunee
Confederacy.

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Truly,
today is a day of change.

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But it\'s not about history,
it\'s abouther story.

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[ Crowd cheering ]

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And in her story,
she\'s going to say

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youse all been lied to.

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Because it didn\'t begin here.

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We had the right
to choose our leadership.

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And men became leaders
only through the uterine voice

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that said it to be so.

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[ Cheers and applause ]

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Imagine if that was
in your Constitution.

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[ Laughter ]

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And for some reason,

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my grandmothers

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didn\'t even have
a whisper in her story.

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-[ Singing in Native language ]

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-When I just hang out
with Haudenosaunee women,

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I come away a different woman.

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[ Laughter ]

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Because there are ways
that you\'re strong.

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You know that you have a right
to be in the world.

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♪♪

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♪♪

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I didn\'t set out to look
for the influence

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of the Haudenosaunee
on the women\'s rights movement.

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It did not enter my mind
that Native women

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could teach women anything.

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How could this have gone on
with nobody writing about it?

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♪♪

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When Penguin Classics
came to me saying,

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\"We\'re thinking of doing
a suffrage anthology.

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What would you like to see?\"

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I want a story that begins
not with white women

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and not in Seneca Falls.

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I want the origins
of the women\'s rights movement

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on the soil of this land.

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My thought was,

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they\'re not going to publish
something like this.

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It is way too far out
of the mainstream.

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[ Dogs barking ]

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♪♪

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[ Barking continues ]

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-Hey!
-Hey!

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-[ Speaks indistinctly ]
-Hello.

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-Oh, how are you?
-How are you?

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-Good.
-Mm.

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Here you go, Sally.
It\'s my Peruvian slippers.

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-Oh, thank you.
Those are beautiful.

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-If you click it twice,
you\'ll --

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-Gee.
-...you\'ll go to...

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-I\'ll go to Peru?
-[Laughs] You\'ll go to Peru.

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[ Laughter ]

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But yeah, we just got done
a bear clan meeting, and...

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-Ah.
-Just finished that.

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Caught my breath
for a half hour.

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-So busy.
-It is. It\'s super busy.

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You have to have
a drink of sap water.

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-Maple water.
-I\'d love to.

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[ Water pours ]

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-There you go.
-Ah.

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-Liquid gold.
-Thank you.

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Yeah.
-Right out of the --

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the wealth of our trees
that are really important.

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This is my world.
-Wow.

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-This is me as a baby.

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-Really?

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This is someone who is taking
the world pretty seriously.

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[ Laughter ]

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-That\'s my M.O.
-Oh, that\'s great.

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-We need to be serious
about this...life.

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♪♪

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[ Birds chirping ]

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Our creation story
begins with a woman.

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She fell from the sky world,

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pregnant and carrying
with her seeds and roots.

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The birds carried her

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and placed her
on a turtle\'s back.

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[ Birds squawking ]

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She spread a handful of dirt,
and danced,

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and the turtle grew
into our Mother Earth.

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Everything in our worldview

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is vested in the life-giving
force of women.

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She had a destiny to fulfill,

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and it was through her story
that the Earth came to be.

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So everything
in our longhouse,

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in our ceremonies,
replays that.

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-The sort of equivalent
of Sky Woman,

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the creation story --

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he is lonely.

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He creates woman
out of man\'s rib.

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So we don\'t have
an original identity.

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We are the helpmate of man.

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That set the stage for law.

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♪♪

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If we\'re looking
at the time period

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right before the first
women\'s rights convention

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in 1848 in Seneca Falls,

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they socially lived
in isolated households.

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They owned nothing.

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The children that they bore
were not theirs.

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Because once they married,

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everything became the property
of their husbands.

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It wasn\'t possible for women
to get divorced

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during this time period,

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and the idea was that marriage
was a covenant with God,

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and you couldn\'t break it.

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Husbands had the right
to beat their wives

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as long as they inflicted
no permanent damage.

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Women in the United States
had no political voice.

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They were dead in the law.

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And they could not sue
or be sued.

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They couldn\'t serve on a jury.

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They had no political influence
in the government in any way.

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-[ Singing in Native language ]

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♪♪

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-This belt that I\'m holding,

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it\'s referred to
as a wampum belt.

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This is the way in which

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we visually recorded
our important history.

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This confederacy is located
within what today

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we call New York State.

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We range all the way

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from the westernmost part
of New York State

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to the eastern part
of the state.

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Some call us the Iroquois.

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Some refer to us
as the Six Nations.

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To ourselves,
we are Haudenosaunee.

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Benjamin Franklin
and Thomas Jefferson saw that

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we have a representational
form of government

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because they attended
treaty councils

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and they saw
how we made decisions.

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The clan mothers are there
to make sure that the chiefs

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are acting in the best interests
of the people,

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sort of a balance of power
of men and women.

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And it\'s the women
who nominate these leaders.

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-The first generals
with Washington,

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in meeting with our chiefs,

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noted that our chiefs
would not make a decision

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without counseling
with the women.

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He called them
\"petticoat chiefs\"

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because he thought
it was a spectacle.

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His European mind could not
comprehend why it is

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that men would confer with women

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when trying to make
a political decision.

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♪♪

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-Before the year 1687,

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the year that it was destroyed
by the French,

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we would have seen,
first of all,

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about 150 bark longhouses.

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The domain of men,
it\'s really the woods.

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♪♪

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Everything inside
of the clearing --

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the gardens and the house --
belonged to the women.

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♪♪

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The duties and responsibilities
of a woman

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really centered around food

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because they were really
the primary agriculturalists.

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They grew our three sisters --
corn, beans, and squash.

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It\'s the central role of women
to bring life,

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you know, into this world,
and that is powerful.

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-I can only imagine

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what it was like
in the villages,

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in the fields
a long time ago.

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[ Crickets and birds chirping ]

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♪♪

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Our villages
were arranged by clients.

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Inside each longhouse
was a network of women

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from one clan family.

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-[ Speaking Native language ]

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-There was a balance between
the roles of men and women.

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-[ Baby fusses ]

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-When daughters would marry,

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their husbands of
a different clan

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would move in with her
and her entire clan family.

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-Abuse of women
was almost nonexistent,

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and if a man could not follow
that sort of rule,

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he might come home
and find outside of the door

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all of his belongings,

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indicating it was time
for him to move on.

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-Elizabeth Cady Stanton
wrote with wonder

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about what it was
for Haudenosaunee women

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to be able to just
put the belongings

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outside the longhouse,
and that was the end of it.

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That if a husband misbehaved,
it was --

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that was a vision of,

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could that even be
possible in this world?

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-The suffragettes from,
you know,

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Mott to Cady Stanton,

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all of them have things written
and published about them.

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We simply don\'t because
our history

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has been left out
all these years.

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-Good afternoon.

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Thank you for coming
to Women\'s Rights National...

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♪♪

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-If you\'re so deeply embedded

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in being told religiously

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and socially and biologically
that you\'re inferior,

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and that\'s all you
see around you,

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you can\'t imagine
that things could be different.

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♪♪

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These women had to see something
that told them

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that it was possible
to have a different world

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and to be treated
in a different way.

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And so in 1848, Lucretia Mott
comes from Cattaraugus.

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She\'s met
with the Seneca women.

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And she would probably have been
pouring out the vision of,

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\"You know what I just saw?\"

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-[ Speaking Native language ]

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-\"I just saw women
having political voice.

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I just saw women
having spiritual voice.\"

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So she\'s seeing something
that is like,

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\"Here is a vision of the way
the world can be created.\"

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-Definitely,
you cannot deny the fact

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that many of their ideas,

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their philosophies
that they fought for

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for women\'s rights
came from Haudenosaunee women

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because the women\'s rights
movement,

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the suffragists were
from New York State.

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♪♪

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Their location
in Seneca Falls,

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right in the heart
of our indigenous territory.

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That has to be significant
in itself.

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Why didn\'t they choose
New York City or Washington?

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-Matilda Joslyn Gage,
who lived in Fayetteville,

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in 1893
was given an honorary adoption

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in the Wolf clan
of the Mohawk Nation.

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She writes to her daughter,
\"My sisters are considering me

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for a voice
in the Council of Matrons,

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which would give me a say
in the choosing of the chief,

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would give me a political voice,
as all the women have.\"

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She talks about
the Haudenosaunee

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and she says,
\"Never was justice more perfect.

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Never was civilization higher.\"

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♪♪

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It took women 72 years

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to finally be guaranteed
the right to vote

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in the Constitution
of the United States.

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♪♪

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[ Crowd cheering ]

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♪♪

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♪♪

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-[ Singing in Native language ]

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♪♪

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-As the women in America
were gaining power,

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the right to vote,
more freedom for speech,

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our women were losing
a lot of the power

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that they had held
traditionally.

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-[ Singing continues ]

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♪♪

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-The children who were here
were forcibly isolated

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from their families.

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They took away their culture,

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they stripped them
of their language,

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they didn\'t teach
their own history to them.

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♪♪

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This is a picture
that I actually found

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in the New York State Archives,
and what you see

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is my mother pictured here
in the second row,

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the second one from the left.

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One thing that she remembers,

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you could hear
the crying at night.

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And here\'s a picture
of where you can see

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how the boys
were taught farming skills.

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The women in
our Haudenosaunee society

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were always the ones who took
the seeds and planted them.

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That complete gender role
reversal happened

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as a result
of the boarding schools,

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and also partially as a result
of placing us on smaller

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and smaller pieces of land
called reservation.

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-[ Singing in Native language ]

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♪♪

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-Under this full moon here
under the winter solstice...

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♪♪

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...you know, we gather here

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in, like, a feminine force

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in order to share
with each other,

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to acknowledge each other.

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Besides being a wife,
a mother, a grandmother,

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I\'m a clan mother,

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so I take seriously my position
and I sincerely care

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about the maternal
child wellness in our community.

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And because of everything
that\'s happened to us,

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we have forgotten.

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We have forgotten our
rightful place in our societies.

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So in this generation,

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I want to make everybody reclaim
their rightful place.

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But part of reclaiming
that authority also means

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responsibility about how to be
responsible for that.

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-I notice a lot in,
at least as a youth,

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that there\'s a lot
of intergenerational trauma,

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but we don\'t realize it
until we\'re older,

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and we don\'t really know
how to deal with that.

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-Be part of this generation
that rethinks itself,

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redesigns itself, and get away
from those stereotypical norms

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of what everybody thinks
an indigenous woman is.

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You know, because there\'s
a lot of things amiss

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in societies,
from missing and murdered

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to the disrespect of our women.

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But nobody\'s going to
give that to us.

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We\'re going to give it
to ourselves.

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-Find some good women
to be around

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and keep them close
and support support each other

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because we\'re all going
to need each other

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at different points in our lives
and our children\'s lives

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and our grandchildren\'s
lives, like --

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maybe our
great grandchildren\'s lives

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if we get there, you know.

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-[ Singing in Native language ]

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♪♪

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♪♪

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♪♪

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[ Exclaiming ]
[ Chatter ]

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♪♪

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-Ms. Rock Star Sally.

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[ Laughter ]

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-Oh, thank you.

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Gloria Steinem says
this book,

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unlike most histories,

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doesn\'t begin with white women.

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And it begins, of course,
with the Haudenosaunee influence

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on women\'s rights.

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There are 500 people tonight
who are going to know

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that women\'s rights
did not start

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in Seneca Falls in 1848.

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-Makes my heart want to cry.

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Because of you.

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-No, it\'s because I got taught.

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[ Both laugh ]

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♪♪

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I\'ve anticipated
that I\'m going to get

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really strong backlash
to this book.

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♪♪

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People who are entrenched
in the university,

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and they\'ve been telling
a particular story,

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may end up
being threatened by this.

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[ Cheers and applause ]

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-In the Museum of the
American Indian in Washington,

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there is a lecture in the
beginning by a young scholar,

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Native scholar,
who starts out by saying,

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\"There are two things,
history and the past,

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and they are not the same.\"

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-History is not what happened,
it\'s who tells the story, right?

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-History was lived
by several different races,

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but only told from
one point of view.

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-And if you have a single lens,

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and especially if you have the
lens of people with privilege,

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you have the least effective
and truthful history.

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-Until you begin to put women
and life bearers

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to the forefront
on the currency

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and statues across the city,

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you return them to the podium,
you return them to leadership,

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you give them a voice
in your democracy,

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in your decision making --

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then not until then

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will this country be truly rich
and be truly a superpower

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and a leader
to the rest of the world

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to say, \"We include our mothers.
We include our sisters.

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We include our daughters
and our granddaughters.

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♪♪

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-So someday when they ask you
about where you\'re from

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and who your people are,

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you\'re not going to go
like this and hide,

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you\'re going to step into it

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because you had these lessons
[ speaks indistinctly ].

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-I just want to say, like,

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we should not
let go of our roots

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and we should not give up, even
if someone says it\'s too late.

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As a community, we need to work
together in unity

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to learn those things
and bring it back

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in order to heal ourselves
asago:nhgweh people,

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and in order
to heal ourselves as...

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a human race, because our Earth
is really sick right now.

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It is our job,
more than anyone else\'s,

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to be able to heal
each other

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and heal this Earth
we should be respecting.

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-[ Singing in Native language ]

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♪♪

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[ Singing continues ]

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♪♪

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♪♪

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[ Singing continues ]

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♪♪

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♪♪

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♪♪

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♪♪

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[ Singing continues ]

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♪♪

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♪♪

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[ Singing fades ]

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-Funding for \"Konnón:kwe --
Without a Whisper\"was made possible
by the following funders...

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And the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting.