WGS 328 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mary Jemison, Iroquois
25 Jan 2017
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James seaver was very descriptive in how she was dressed and that he like the way her story went. She did not trust seaver so she brought someone with her. Capture: the dad shuts down after they are taken, while the mother takes care of them, her mother tells mary to say her prayers, remember. Life as a seneca women: mary harvested crops, also went out to help the men with skinning animals, compared to colonial life she seems to prefer seneca life, the seneca mother mentions that they should not take. The seneca fought on the side of the british: originally made a treaty to stay neutral (iroquois. Confederation: some nations fought on the side of the colonies while others fought on the side of the british (the seneca, the women who are left in the villages, george. Washington sent someone to burn down the villages so.
