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Shirts Powdered Red: Haudenosaunee Gender, Trade, and Exchange across Three Centuries

By Maeve Kane

Indigenous peoples history, History, Indigenous peoples

Synthetic audio, Automated braille

Summary

Beginning with a purchased shirt and ending with a handmade dress, Shirts Powdered Red shows how Haudenosaunee women and their work shaped their nations from the sixteenth century through the nineteenth century.By looking at clothing that was bought, created, and… remade, Maeve Kane brings to life how Haudenosaunee women used access to global trade to maintain a distinct and enduring Haudenosaunee identity in the face of colonial pressures to assimilate and disappear. Drawing on rich oral, archival, material, visual, and quantitative evidence, Shirts Powdered Red tells the story of how Haudenosaunee people worked to maintain their nations' cultural and political sovereignty through selective engagement with trade and the rhetoric of civility, even as Haudenosaunee clothing and gendered labor increasingly became the focus of colonial conversion efforts throughout the upheavals and dispossession of the nineteenth century. Shirts Powdered Red offers a sweeping, detailed cultural history of three centuries of Haudenosaunee women's labor and their agency to shape their nations' future.

Title Details

ISBN 9781501767906
Publisher Cornell University Press
Copyright Date 2019
Book number 5184662
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Shirts Powdered Red: Haudenosaunee Gender, Trade, and Exchange across Three Centuries

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