Woman the Trader
Woman the Trader
Native Women in New Netherland
Most scholars examining the relationship between European men and Native American women in the colonial situation tend to see a consistently exploitative one on the part of men. Here we look at that relationship through a different lens and discover the agency of Native women in their intimate relationships with European men in the Dutch colony of New Netherland. This chapter argues that these relationships were part of a continuation and expansion of traditional societal practices of exchange and gift giving, and the Europeans, probably unknowingly, conformed to those practices. These relationships are examined in the context of the roles of European men and African women who inhabited the colony.
Keywords: intimate relationships, Native American women, Dutch colony, New Netherland, agency
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