ELL: response to WSJ editorial

[M. J. Hardman]

Thanks, Doug, for the answer. to the editorial.  I am forwarding it far
and wide.  And thanks for mentioning the matter of democracy.
Interesting how difficult it is to acknowledge debt to those our
ancestors wronged.

Like with the constitution itself, the same is true for Women's Suffrage,
though that part got written out too.  The hinge there was Matilde Joslyn
Gage, who became Ka-ron-ien-ha-wi or "She who holds the sky" when she was
made an honorary member of the Iroquois wolf clan in 1893.  She talked
with and listened to the Indians.  And the first suffragist meeting was
held in Seneca Falls -- Iroquois territory.  We don't hear about her, yet
we owe so much to her and through her to people who already understood
that the sexes could not be ranked.

There is more on her at:
http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/gage/mjg.html

And on the historian who has done so much to make her story, and the
story of the Iroquois/colonist contact, known to us:
http://www.nyhistory.com/sallyroeschwagner/

Dr. MJ Hardman
website:  http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/
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