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  2. Seneca people - Wikipedia

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    Seneca women generally grew and harvested varieties of the three sisters, as well as gathering and processing medicinal plants, roots, berries, nuts, and fruit. Seneca women held sole ownership of all the land and the homes. The women also tended to any domesticated animals such as dogs and turkeys. [citation needed]

  3. Mary Jemison - Wikipedia

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    by her willingness to give up the life of a white woman to become an Indian woman at the end of the book. Before, her name in the novel was Corn Tassel because her hair was the color of the tassels on ripe corn. Rayna M. Gangi's novel, Mary Jemison: White Woman of the Seneca (1996), is a fictional version of Jemison's story.

  4. Queen Alliquippa - Wikipedia

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    Little is known about Queen Aliquippa's early life. Her date of birth has been estimated anywhere from the early 1670s to the early 18th century. By the 1740s, she was the leader of a band of Mingo Seneca living along the three rivers (the Ohio River, the Allegheny River, and the Monongahela River) near what is now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

  5. List of Native American artists - Wikipedia

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    The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 defines "Native American" as being enrolled in either federally recognized tribes or state recognized tribes or "an individual certified as an Indian artisan by an Indian Tribe." [1] This does not include non-Native American artists using Native American themes. Additions to the list need to reference a ...

  6. Ernest Smith (artist) - Wikipedia

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    Sky Woman (1936). Ernest Peter Smith (October 28, 1907 – February 25, 1975) was a Native American artist from the Tonawanda Seneca Nation. [1] Smith painted mostly traditional Seneca myths and stories of daily life in the Seneca village he grew up in.

  7. Alice Lee Jemison - Wikipedia

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    Jemison defended these women when the District Attorney, Guy Moore, called the murder an "Indian" crime and conducted warrantless searches of Seneca and Cayuga homes. Jemison worked with Chief Clinton Rickard and Seneca President Ray Jimerson to appeal the case to political leaders, including U.S. Vice President Charles Curtis. Due to their ...

  8. Ganondagan State Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    The Seneca's matrilineal kinship system gave considerable power to women, as inheritance and property were passed through the maternal line. Children were considered born into their mother's family and clan, which determined their social status. In 1848 at Seneca Falls, New York, American women created a proclamation of rights to achieve ...

  9. Tonawanda Band of Seneca - Wikipedia

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    The Tonawanda Seneca Nation (previously known as the Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians) (Seneca: Ta:nöwö:deʼ Onödowáʼga꞉ Yoindzadeʼ) is a federally recognized tribe in the State of New York. They have maintained the traditional form of government led by sachems (hereditary Seneca chiefs) selected by clan mothers .