Aliquippa and woman-erasure

[johanna_hypatia]

-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

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[virginia_fell]

That's really interesting. I'd never heard of her either. Thanks for helping fill a pretty substantial gap in my education.

[johanna_hypatia]

How about that, huh? But I want to find a better picture of her. The artist erred by showing her people living in tipis. The Iroquois nations lived in longhouses. In fact, that mattered so much to them that the official name of their confederacy is Haudenosaunee: People of the Longhouse.

[cmcmck]

Why not? They managed it with Budicca for centuries :o(

[johanna_hypatia]

set the patterns of global imperialism for the next two centuries.

Aliquippa met Washington in December 1753. Two hundred years later, in 1953, America overthrew Mosaddeq in Iran. "Operation Ajax."

[mysanal]

Wow! I never heard of her either and I grew up near there! Thanks for this.