The newspaper article that I found was from 1899 in New York Journal and Advertiser. The article is titled, “Woman Paleface an Indian Chief.”

Article: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030180/1899-01-15/ed-1/?q=iroquois+confederacy&sp=23&r=-0.13,0.025,0.751,0.328,0

This article caught my attention because it’s about Harriet Maxwell Converse who was a white woman of Scottish and Irish heritage who was adopted by Red Jacket, a Seneca orator and chief. Converse who was a historian, folklorist and poet, used her skills and social position to aid the Seneca in the protection of their culture and lands. I was drawn to this article because of the mention of Red Jacket, since SUNY Geneseo has a Red Jacket Dining Hall. Harriet Maxwell Converse was adopted into Red Jacket’s family as an honor for all of her work that had helped the Senecas maintain what they had. As we begin our research Converse seems like a good person to look into!

Other Resources:

“HARRIET CONVERSE FOUGHT FOR NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS Series: Women’s History Month.” Syracuse Herald American, Mar 26, 2000, pp. B1. ProQuest, https://proxy.geneseo.edu/login?url=https://proxy.geneseo.edu:5742/docview/326113772?accountid=11072.