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Evelyn Reed
Red Jacket

Erich Maria Remarque
Adrienne Rich

Evelyn Reed, née Horwit
b. 10-31-1905; Haledon, NJ
d. 3-22-1979; NYC

Evelyn Reed was the pen name of Evelyn Horwit Andreas Novack, an artist, philosopher, anthropologist and socialist who “sought to educate and inspire women with the facts about the creative and productive role females have played in history.”

Evelyn Reed's book Woman's Evolution, establishes through research that women/mothers were the creators of the social skills necessary to evolve primates to hominids, and that women, as the first artists, linguists, architects, writers and farmers, were the sex to tame fire.

Red Jacket Giclee Print George Catlin

Red Jacket
b. c. 1750; New York State
d. 1-20-1830

Sagoyewatha (translates as “he keeps them awake”) is known as Red Jacket, a name bestowed for his wearing the red coat given to him by the British, was a Seneca chief renownd for speaking out for the rights of his people.

In 1792 George Washington gave Red Jacket a peace medal engraved with their images; portraits of Red Jacket show him wearing the silver medal.

Red Jacket and Joseph Brant were enemies even though the Seneca and Mohawks fought on the side of the British in the Revolutionary War.

All Quiet on the Western Front History Through Literature Art Print

Erich Maria Remarque
b. 6-28-1898; Osnabruck, Germany
d. 9-25-1970; Switzerland

Adrienne Rich
b. 6-16-1929; Baltimore, MD

Feminist Adrienne Cecile Rich has been called “one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century.”

Louis Riel, Giclee Print

Louis Riel
b. 10-22-1844; near Winnipeg, Red River Colony, Rupert's Land, British North America (Canada)
d. 11-16-1885; Regina, Northwest Territorities, Canada (hanged for treason)

Louis Riel, a political and spiritual leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies, was a founder of the province of Manitoba. The execution of Riel, who was born into a French Canadian-Metis family, is a source of conflict in Canadian provincial relations, particularly Quebec.

FYI ~ The Métis are a distinct group of Aboriginal people in Canada who trace their descent to mixed First Nations and European heritage.

George Ripley, Historic Print

George Ripley
b. 10-3-1802; Greenfield, Massachusetts
d. 7-4-1880; NYC

Social reformer, Unitarian minister, journalist, teacher and Transcendentalist George Ripley was the founder of the short-lived Utopian community Brook Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.