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Mary Jemison's view of the Revolution was really interesting especially since she shares the Indian perspective of the war. She points out how they broke their treaty with one side because the British told them the rebels would be beaten easily and gave them gifts. Mary basically implied that the Indians were bought with gifts to fight for the British. She states the Indians were "hired to commit depredations upon the whites, who had given them no offense. She does not seem to agree with the decision to fight for the British. She does accept the Iroquois as her people even if she does not agree with the things they do.- LeAnn Taggart | Mary Jemison's view of the Revolution was really interesting especially since she shares the Indian perspective of the war. She points out how they broke their treaty with one side because the British told them the rebels would be beaten easily and gave them gifts. Mary basically implied that the Indians were bought with gifts to fight for the British. She states the Indians were "hired to commit depredations upon the whites, who had given them no offense. She does not seem to agree with the decision to fight for the British. She does accept the Iroquois as her people even if she does not agree with the things they do.- LeAnn Taggart | ||
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| + | For as much as Mary Jemison’s appearance of aligning herself with the Iroquois through her speech such as “our Indians”, it almost seems tenuous and superficial as she also interchangeably uses distancing words such as “the Indians” or just “they”. This fragile state of association is also shown by the fact that at first sign of food shortage, she quickly took her children and left the Iroquois. This paragraph (third from the bottom) says nothing about her husband, friends, or the connections she had formed with the people in the Iroquois village and her concern about how they would have fared, and also the fact that she never went back. I think this article was interesting to see how the Iroquois women viewed the American Revolution and part the Iroquois played, but just as much, I think, maybe, that this article also should warn us about overstating her emotional connection to the Iroquois themselves? – Elyse Lawrence | ||
== Thomas Paine in 1775, from Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 288-289 == | == Thomas Paine in 1775, from Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 288-289 == | ||
