Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Many tender Cries chapter 1
I am behind so yea. here is my blog that was suppossed to be done awhile ago. But the intro was about the fur trade industry began and was run in western canada. A big part of the intro was when it discussed what indiam women had to gain by marrying a fur trader. The would be treated better and as equals. Chapter one talks about how the indiam women eventually were not teated well. They were not doing feminine jobs and were doing jobs as if they were men. It also talks how they became more of a sex object rather than looked at like a women.
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FYI its Many Tender Ties. But native American women in the fur trade society were viewed as sex objects by the white colonizers. Therefore intermarriage occured which was as you stated a ticket into being part of the white society. These females saw this as an advantage of being part of the superior force. Not only but the men themselves were able to take advantage of this since these native women helped the fur trade industry to expand across the country.
Great summary of main ideas. How did ideas of gender ('feminine' and 'masculine') interfere with native women's customary roles as multiply-empowered and autonomous peoples in their own societies?
Although we can only speculate, as the book is written through a feminist lens of the companies' archival records, it does give us the possibility of undertanding the complex processes of colonization and assimilation. How native women negotiated all the complexities is not revealed, and how native women defied and disturbed the limits imposed on them by the 'civilized' raced, classed and gendered scripts of the white settler groups is important.
Responding to Meza yes this is very true but at the same time these traders welcomed these women in because they knew that if they married these women they would also benefit from them so both sides worked just as hard to be together and take advantage of that.
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