Aliquippa and woman-erasure
-Alliquippa? (looking over the writer's shoulder) You mean she's a person? I thought that was just a place name near Pittsburgh.
-Yes, she was the most prominent sachem of the Seneca nation in Pennsylvania in the mid-18th century. She lived not at the place named for her, but at the confluence of the Monongahela and the Youghiogheny rivers, the site of present-day McKeesport. The French and Indian War got off to a messy, premature start as a result of 21-year-old George Washington's visit to her, and her offer to ally with the British. She was around 70 or 80 years old at the time. This was before Washington learned good strategy, so he majorly bunged up the operation and started a vicious war that spread far and wide. Aliquippa is the individual who basically set in motion the Seven Years' War, which was actually World War Zero and resulted in permanently redrawing the map of not only North America but India and other places around the world, destabilized the imperial powers leading to the American and French Revolutions, and set the patterns of global imperialism for the next two centuries.
-They never told us about her in my Pennsylvania history class.
-So they cover up the existence of a powerful woman leader who changed the course of world history. What a surprise.
-Yes, she was the most prominent sachem of the Seneca nation in Pennsylvania in the mid-18th century. She lived not at the place named for her, but at the confluence of the Monongahela and the Youghiogheny rivers, the site of present-day McKeesport. The French and Indian War got off to a messy, premature start as a result of 21-year-old George Washington's visit to her, and her offer to ally with the British. She was around 70 or 80 years old at the time. This was before Washington learned good strategy, so he majorly bunged up the operation and started a vicious war that spread far and wide. Aliquippa is the individual who basically set in motion the Seven Years' War, which was actually World War Zero and resulted in permanently redrawing the map of not only North America but India and other places around the world, destabilized the imperial powers leading to the American and French Revolutions, and set the patterns of global imperialism for the next two centuries.
-They never told us about her in my Pennsylvania history class.
-So they cover up the existence of a powerful woman leader who changed the course of world history. What a surprise.