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The Suppressed Histories Archives is an international women's history project seeking to uncover
the realities of female lives, and of peoples free, conquered, enslaved, decimated and resurgent.
Women’s Power: Study Guide
Women who were leaders,
defenders and liberators of their peoples are among the most remembered
--the ones whose names managed to penetrate the heavy curtain that
screens out female achievements.
But textbooks and the media seldom
mention them, so few people have heard of:
Trung Trac and Trung Nhi, sisters
who galvanized the Vietnamese resistance to Chinese domination
in 60 CE
Boudicca of the Iceni and Veleda
of the Bructerii, who led tribal European insurrections against
Roman rule
Gudit Isat (Judith the Fire),
charismatic Ethiopian religious leader who felled the Axumite
dynasty
Wetamu of Pocasset and Anne of
Pamunkey, female leaders in the resistence to English invasion
of eastern North America
Queen
Nanny of the Maroons, the Ashanti woman who led Africans out
of slavery into the Jamaican highlands
María Candelaria, Maya
priestess and leader of a rebellion against Spanish rule in Chiapas,
1712
Lakshmibai,
the Rani of Jhansi, who led a revolt against the British empire
in India
Nehanda Nyakasikana, a Shona diviner
and leader of resistance to Rhodesian colonization of Zimbabwe
Qiu Jen,
Chinese women's rights activist executed for sedition by the Manchu
dynasty in 1911
Niuta Teitelboim, Jewish partisan
of the Warsaw Ghetto and mastermind of daring actions against
the Nazis
The Suppressed Histories
Slide Series also draws attention to entire groups of women whose
names have not survived, though their creative and technological
achievements endure:
the inventors of agriculture
--not only in western Asia, which is what you usually read about, but also in southeast Asia, the African
Sahel, Peru and Mexico
the potters of Thailand, Rumania,
Iraq, Manchuria, New Mexico, Algeria, and the Amazon basin
the weavers of Indonesia, Arabia,
Bosnia, Arizona, Latvia, and northwestern America
the makers of felt cloth (Turkestan);
Kasai velvets (Congo); bark cloth (Tonga, Samoa, Indonesia,
central and eastern Africa); porcupine quill embroidery (North America)
women who invented food preservation
techniques -- drying, smoking, salting, potting, and fermentation
-- and discovered the biochemical technologies used to make leavened
breads, cheese, butter, yogurt, kefir, beer, wine, kumiss and
chicha.
the leatherworkers of Niger, Siberia,
Canada, Namibia, and the Dakotas
the designers and makers of Bedouin
tents, Mongol yurts, Pueblo adobes, North American tipis, wigwams,
wickiups; and the mural-painted houses found across vast stretches
of Africa
the market women of Nigeria, Burma,
Indonesia, Mexico, Ireland, Papua, and Bolivia
Suppressed Histories Archives: real women, global vision
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