CAR Newsletter Fall 2013

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Ina May Gaskin Inducted into the National Women’s Hall Of Fame
By: Robbie Davis-Floyd

She gave a brilliant talk. She began by noting that even though she could not legally practice in New York State as a CPM, she had actually and legally attended a birth in New York, on a Native American reservation there that is not officially part of NY. “Balance” was her theme—the balance the Six Nations achieved by having men as chiefs, with a committee of women as the voters who decided what the male leaders could and could not do, such as when they could and could not go to war.

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