Inusk, a Kickapoo girl daughter of a chief who walked six miles to attend school.
A member of the Canadian Women’s Army Corps celebrates the end of WWII,
from atop a Court House lion, August 14, 1945.
Vancouver Archives.
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Teacher training for Havasupai teachers, circa 1972-1977
Native to the Grand Canyon area, the Havasupai or Havsuw’ Baaja (Blue Water People) were restricted to a 518 acres reservation by the federal government in 1882. In 1975, the tribe regained 215,000 acres.
Today the tribe of approximately 600 members makes the majority of their income from tourism.
Finnish women marching for equal rights
1905photo credit: Helsinki City Museum
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‘…. I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon women’s inconsistency. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman’s fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.’
‘Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage in telling us their own story. Education has been theirs to a much higher degree; the pen has been in their hands……’
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Captain Harville & Anne Elliot
Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1818)
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