Life Story: Weetamoo
17th Century Native American War Club
Unidentified Maker, 17th–century Native American war club, 17th century. Fenimore Art Museum. Loan from Eugene V. And Clare E. Thaw, Thaw Collection, T
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India Company was looking to recruit new settlers to New Netherland. Willem had recently started a war with the local native tribes and wanted to increase the colony’s population to make it harder for the tribes to take back land. Deborah was a woman
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These two clay pots illustrate how Zuni women participated in the cultural revival that accompanied the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. A companion art activity accompanies this resource.
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disagreements could quickly turn into open war. Leaders on both sides relied on translators to communicate openly and keep the peace. Sarah Roelfs Kierstede van Borsum was one of the most trusted translators working for the New Netherland government. The Lenni
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converts would teach Catholic doctrine and French culture to their communities, speeding up the process of converting Native communities. Some Native parents sent their daughters to the convents to protect them from the years of war, famine, and disease
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Teach Quashawam’s life story in conjunction with the land grant of Sarah Roelfs Kierstede van Borsum and DeVries’ description of Kieft’s War with the Lenni-Lenape (Resource 10 in New World—New Netherland—New York) to provide a more
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perhaps because her interviewer wasn’t interested) is that they left Fort Orange because their settlement was razed during an intertribal war their Dutch commander had involved them in.
Catalina and Joris relocated to New Amsterdam, were among the first
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English colonies and why they received different treatment.
Combine this life story with Life Story: Weetamoo and Life Story: Esther Wheelwright to give your students background information about the wars between English Settlers and Indigenous people
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The story of the enslaved Native woman who acted as the primary interpreter for Hernan Cortés during his conquest of the Aztec Empire.
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caused by European diseases and fur trade wars. Because of this practice, the community Kateri grew up in included a diversity of Indigenous languages and cultures.
When Kateri was about four years old, her parents and younger brother died in a smallpox
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