“The Native American women, many of whom have experienced the white the white indoctrination of mission and government schools, created clubs for two primary and seemingly contradictory purposes: to promote their adopted ways of life to all Indians as well as to study and preserve selected aspects of native culture and history.” ~ Lisa Tetzloff (1)
“Club work also gave women the power of a collective voice. Their sheer number amplified the volume of their message. Clubs gave Native American women a way to engage in the much larger and on-going discussion among their people about what it meant to be Indian” ~ Lisa Tetzloff (39)