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== John Heckewelder’s 1819, Women’s Lives among the Delaware == | == John Heckewelder’s 1819, Women’s Lives among the Delaware == | ||
| + | John Heckewelder describes the Native American women in Delaware. He comments about the differences and some of the aspects of lives between the Native Americans' lifestyles and the Europeans'. Among them are marriages: marriages among the Indians are not contracted for life. He also mentions the varying work men and women have. Men construct the house in which they are to live in, hunts, traps. Women take care of the home, sometimes become their husband's helpmate while he is hunting, tills the ground, gets the firewood, and pounds the corn in mortars. I think this group of Native American women followed the same kind of pattern that most European women followed at the time and would not offend most outsiders. Heckewelder's notes may prove that because most of the duties of the Native American women were similar to that of European women, there was no real reason to be shocked or offended. -Amy Van Ness | ||
== Pierre de Charlevoix, 1721, “Iroquois Women in Government” == | == Pierre de Charlevoix, 1721, “Iroquois Women in Government” == | ||
