Register Here: www.tinyurl.com/WithoutAWhisper
Explore the untold story of how Indigenous women influenced the early suffragists in their fight for freedom and equality. RSVP for free access to the film from March 1 -14th. Then join us on March 8th for a panel discussion with filmmaker Katsitsionni Fox, Mohawk Bear Clan Matron Louise McDonald Herne and Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner moderated by Tewentenhawihtha Aldrich (Native Affairs Coordinator at SUNY Potsdam). Use the above link to register for access to the film as well as for the panel event. If you are unable to attend the panel event, register in order to get access to both the film and the recording of the panel event.
ABOUT FILM:
WITHOUT A WHISPER – KONNON:KWE uncovers the hidden history of the profound influence Indigenous women had on the beginnings of the women’s rights movement in the United States. Before the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls in 1848, European colonial women lacked even the most basic rights, while Haudenosaunee women had a potent political and spiritual voice and authority in all aspects of their lives. The contact that the early suffragists had with Haudenosaunee women in New York state shaped their thinking and had a vital impact on their struggle for equality that is taken for granted today. The film follows Mohawk Bear Clan Mother Louise Herne and Professor Sally Roesch Wagner as they seek to correct the historical narrative about the origins of women’s rights in the United States.
ABOUT FILMMAKER:
Katsitsionni has been making films since 2003 in the Mohawk Territory of Akwesasne, where she resides. Her film “Ohero:kon – Under the Husk,” following the journey of two Mohawk girls as they take part in their traditional passage rites to becoming Mohawk Women, received funding from Vision Maker Media and was broadcast on many PBS stations. Katsitsionni received the Jane Glassco Award for Emerging Filmmaker at the imagineNATIVE Film Festival in 2016 as well as the Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking Award at LA Skins Fest in 2016. She produced a series of twelve short segments for REMATRIATION, a Native American women’s online, multi-media magazine, that is focused on healing and empowerment of Native women through the sharing of their stories and successes.
