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(John Heckewelder’s 1819, Women’s Lives among the Delaware)
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== Sarah Ahhaton’s trial, 1668 ==
 
== Sarah Ahhaton’s trial, 1668 ==
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The Sarah Ahhaton trial was very extravagant for the time period. This changed the Indian social world, primarily in the realm of marriage. Indian women had the ability to “do what they please,” including marriage, divorce and trading, before the ideas of Christianity confronted their ways. A trial dedicated to the admitted adultery of an Indian woman, with a required punishment, accomplished through interpreter, forced European values onto the native women by combining the political and personal spheres. The ideas of love, sex and marriage all became political, with political regulations.--Kris
  
 
== Ann Marie Plane's essay ==
 
== Ann Marie Plane's essay ==

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