Dear Family, Friends and Everyone reading this blog,
Hello! I hope this blog finds all well and EVERYONE VOTING ON NOVEMBER 8, 2022! My Great Grandmother, Sophia Huff Powless, born in 1876 in Wisconsin, wasn’t allowed to vote. Like me, she was of the Oneida Indigenous Tribe of Wisconsin. Like me, she was a woman. Thus, she wasn’t able to vote until the year 1924! And even them, Indigenous people and other minority cultures, and women in general, faced much opposition and obstacles to vote.
Today, we all have the right to vote. All of us! On November 8th, please use your rights to vote in this midterm election, here in our country, the United States of America. America is our country! It is the year 2022, but it seems like it’s the turn of the century, when Sophia was forced to attend the Carlisle Indian Industrial Boarding School to be assimilated white.
Here in Wisconsin, where I was born and now reside, our state has many political races going on. What becomes of voting, abortion, women’s rights, same sex marriage, discrimination, education, climate change, racism, etc. will depend on who is elected to run our country. If you want the country to run for all of us, Please vote Blue. Please vote Democratic!
I have proudly voted for Tony Evers for our Wisconsin Governor. I voted for Mandala Barnes for U.S. Senator. I pray the Democrats are elected this coming Tuesday. Our democracy depends on it, not just here in Wisconsin, but in our entire country. Sophia faced much racism for being Oneida. Our government even forced her to attend Carlisle to be assimilated into the white culture. She had no democracy because of her Indigenous Oneida. But, if she were alive today, and allowed to vote, she would vote for democracy! We have a choice of democracy for all or autocracy! Sophia spoke her mind with honesty. Today, she is in Heaven with God, Our Creator. I am glad she is free from having to hear that the 2020 election was stolen. It wasn’t stolen! Biden won! Thank you for reading this.
Sincerely,
Roberta Capasso, Proud Oneida, Author of the book: Sky Woman Lives in Me
Sky Woman Lives in Me 