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Article: Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835.(Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- June 22, 2000
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Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. By Theda Perdue (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xi plus 252pp.).
In the records of white traders, colonists and Indian agents who observed Native peoples in the "New World," Native women are slaves, beasts of burden, whores, or simply of no account. And it is their impressions, not the voices of Native people themselves, that have informed much of the historiography of Native America. In the l980s and 1990s, historians with one foot in Native American history and the other in women's history, began to tell a different story about Native women. Patricia Albers' and Beatrice Medicine's ...