Native American

Supplemental material related to our thesis in The Secret Life of Lady Liberty concerning the Native American influence on culture. Buy this book at amazon.com.

This 5:52 minute video produced by Injunuity.org explains in clear terms and with effective imagery how the European colonists encountered a sophisticated and balanced system of self-government developed by the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) over centuries. The narrator of this video is Dr. Donald Grinde, the director of the University at Buffalo SUNY Native American studies, and co-author of Exemplar of Liberty and many other books on the Native American influence theory.

“This powerful and timely portrayal of Lady Liberty includes an exploration of the artistic, cultural, and historical contexts that have informed this cultural icon. Along the way, the authors delve into much women’s history and “exhume”> long buried feminists and feminist concepts such as Republican Motherhood as women created a political role for themselves prior to woman suffrage. It also depicts how ‘The Lady’ was used as an icon in the movement for the vote. The book packs a great deal of political punch and history while explaining the symbolism of women’s role in our political life — past and present — missing from even our higher education today.”

— Edith P. Mayo, curator emeritus in Political and Women’s History, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

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