WORDS FOR WAUSAU EVENT COMMEMORATING 100 YEARS OF WOMEN’S RIGHT TO VOTE

  Sheku Sk^n^ko.ka/Hello, Are you in the Peace.   Yaw^ko Thank you to Dorthy Miller for inviting me to speak and to Carolyn Michaski who helped me decide on a topic.   Haudenosaunee People – Longhouse People refers to five, later six, Indigenous Nations who shared a matrilineal culture and a language group and came together as a powerful representative democracy here on Anowalko Owe.no.te/Turtle Island/North America, before the discovery and colonization of the continent.  The Haudenosaunee or Longhouse People is the name we call ourselves.  Many of you may know us as the Iroquois, though that name was given us by ...