This letter demonstrates that Russian colonial efforts relied on intermarriage between Russian traders and Native women.
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Soldiers’ accounts of encounters with a Haudenosaunee woman who lost everything during General John Sullivan’s raids against Native communities in New York.
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Young Lenni-Lenape women sign a treaty selling Staten Island to the government of colonial New York.
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This skillfully painted hide demonstrates the craft and artistry of Quapaw women, and provides clues about the Quapaw’s relationship with French settlers and neighboring tribes.
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This engraving illustrates George Washington’s meeting with Seneca leader Queen Aliquippa, an important ally of the British during the French and Indian War.
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Margueritte Wiltz’s petition to marry a Spanish soldier captures the early expressions of white supremacy in Spanish Louisiana.
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This drawing of the Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo shows the setting of Spanish efforts to convert and Europeanize Native populations in Alta California.
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The story of a métis fur trader of the Great Lakes region.
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The story of a Tongva wise woman who led a rebellion against a Spanish mission in Alta California.
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The story of a Puritan girl taken captive in a war with the French and Wabanaki.
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