reward for the work his wife, Sara, did as an interpreter with local Native communities.
Patent. October 14, 1673. New York State Archives. Translation by Eric Ruijssenaars.
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The colonists of New
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cradleboard with the images of digging sticks and the Zuni pots for a lesson on the labor of women in North American Native communities.
DOMESTICITY AND FAMILY; WORK, LABOR, AND ECONOMY
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). They helped construct a fort and farms. In this testimony, Catalina recalls a peaceful and fruitful trade relationship with the local native people, and mentions moving back to New Amsterdam in 1626. What she leaves out (due to memory failure, or
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Mother, Hardenbroeck v. the Orphanmasters, Life Story: Margrieta van Varick.
To learn more about Director Kieft’s war on native communities in New Netherland, visit New World—New Netherland—New York.
Ask students to write a paper about reasons people
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established: New Spain in North America, and Peru in South America. Spanish elite grew rich off plantations and mines that they staffed with enslaved Native people and Africans, while Franciscan friars forced thousands of Native people to convert to
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and social privileges they would not have had in traditional French society.
2. The labor and collaboration of Native women was critical to the survival of New France.
3. The Catholic Church played a significant role in the colonization of the Native
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and philosophy, and was teaching Latin to other children in her community. She also taught herself to read and write Nahuatl, the language spoken by the native people of Mexico.
As a teenager and young adult, Juana lived in the viceroy’s court in
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prominence in the community.
The free Black community Lisbeth grew up in was formed by enslaved people from New Amsterdam who petitioned for their freedom. Colony directors granted those they freed small pieces of land so they could support themselves, and
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Native people. Traders also bought and sold other natural resources that could be used in other parts of the empire. The Atlantic slave trade was central to the economy and development of the colony.
Women were an integral part of the daily life and
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the mistress of a prosperous household in Philadelphia, but she made time to tinker with ideas on how to improve life in the colonies. After watching how Native women pounded corn with a mortar and pestle, Sybilla invented a corn gin that could do the
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