Caroline G. Parker dating history

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Caroline Gahano (Ga-Hah-No) Parker Mt. Pleasant (short for Mountpleasant by marriage), was an intellectual, activist, and embroiderer who was born into the Seneca Wolf Clan. For her important work in reviving community traditions, in 1853 the Tonawanda Seneca gave her the honorific name Jigonhsasee (also spelled Jigonsahseh or Jiconsaseh), or “Peace Woman,” after a woman who helped establish the Iroquois League of Peace (now called the Haudenosaunee Confederacy). Parker's network included the anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan, who commissioned hundreds of confections from her for the New York State Cabinet of Natural History. Caroline Parker's textiles and beadwork styles blend Haudenosaunee and Victorian elements, which has exerted a lasting influence on Seneca and Tuscarora fashion.