October 2, 2024

Hello! This year is really going by fast! Yesterday it was a warm 81 degrees. Today it is windy and 63! I hope everyone had a nice summer. The Presidental Election is only weeks away now. I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz because they care about this country. My Great Grandmother, Sophia Huff, whom I talk about in my book, Sky Woman Lives in Me, wasn’t allowed to vote until 1924. If she were alive today I know she would be voting for Kamala and Tim. I have shared Sophia’s story of being a boarding student at the Carlisle Indian Industrial Boarding School in July, 1891. She was forced to attend Carlisle along with her sister, Lily. Why? Because Sophia and Lily were considered savages and needed assimilation into the white society and well as to be christianized. Well, both girls were already christianized, having been baptized Episcopalian on the Oneida Reservation when they babies. And these two ladies were not wild savages. They were kind, smart, hardworking, respectful human beings who just happened to be Indigenous Oneida. Because of them, Sky Woman lives on, in me and my Oneida relatives. I wear an orange shirt for this little girl pictured below and for my great grandmother and all who survived Indian Boarding Schools.

I am still selling my book, Sky Woman Lives in Me. You can buy it at: lulu.com and other booksellers. Just type my book title on the search engine on Google. You can also contact me directly at: https://bobbie@skywomanlivesinme.com

Lastly, please, PLEASE VOTE in the upcoming election. Our Democracy depends on it! My great grandmother wasn’t allowed to vote until 1924, as I mentioned earlier in this blog. She had to get permission to leave the Oneida Reservation, (from Oneida Reservation Government Agents just to vote in another town!

Thank you for reading my blog! Please feel free to pass this blog along! Sincerely, Roberta Capasso (Bobbie) Author of: Sky Woman Lives in Me and a proud member of the Oneida of Wisconsin.