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The women wore their hair long, often dressed with traditional bear grease, or tied back into a single braid. In traditional dress women often went topless in summer and wore a skirt of deerskin. In colder seasons, women wore a deerskin dress. Men wore a breech cloth of deerskin in summer. In cooler weather, they added deerskin leggings, a ...
During this time records also show that many Native American women bought African men but, unknown to the European traders, the women freed and married the men into their tribe. [26] The Indian wars of the early 18th century, combined with the growing availability of African slaves, essentially ended the Indian Slave trade by 1750. [ 30 ]
Coocoochee (c. 1740 – after 1800) was a Mohawk leader and medicine woman. [1] She was born in a village near Montreal but lived most of her life in the remote North American Ohio Country among the Shawnee led by the war chief Blue Jacket. [2] She was born into the important Wolf Clan, later marrying a warrior member of the Bear Clan.
A similar balance is shown in their political sphere, as while all chiefs were men, the Yakoyaner and other women within the clan elected them. [4] Female councils entertained issues first; then they were sent to the men's committee. [5] Furthermore, women monitored officials and held the right to impeach any person found unworthy of political ...
The Kahnawake reserve in 1910. Mary Two-Axe was born on October 4, 1911, on the Mohawk reserve of Kahnawake (then known as Caughnawaga). [1] Her father, Dominic Onenhariio Two-Axe, was a Mohawk, while her mother, Juliet Smith, was an Oneida nurse and teacher. [2]
Women's hairstyles became increasingly long in the latter part of the decade and blunt cuts dominated. Blunt cuts of the late 1980s brought long hair to an equal length across the back. Bangs were popular, with "mall bangs", attributed to teenage girls who frequented shopping malls , were styled by ratting bangs into peaks or mounds, and then ...
Dancing in Congo Square, 1886. Mardi Gras Indians have been practicing their traditions in New Orleans since at least the 18th century. The colony of New Orleans was founded by the French in 1718, on land inhabited by the Chitimacha Tribe, and within the first decade 5,000 enslaved Africans were trafficked to the colony.
The Schenectady massacre was an attack against the colonial settlement of Schenectady in the English Province of New York on February 8, 1690. A raiding party of 114 French soldiers and militiamen, accompanied by 96 allied Mohawk and Algonquin warriors, attacked the unguarded community, destroying most of the homes, and killing or capturing most of its inhabitants.