HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Martha Ballard, Squaw, Childbirth
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Lecture #4: race-based labor/gender, labor and early colonization. Women labor was more diverse, they changed roles a lot throughout the roles. The men have more long-term, year round positions as hunters, fishers, and traders. They traded and battled in the summer because it was easier to get around. They didn"t hunt in the winter because animals were skinnier. 70% of the calories (preparing fields, planting, harvest, etc. ) but in european societies the men were always the farmers. Children also did labor, which was common in all societies. Anglo-americans viewed native americans as squaw drudges , a degrading term because they looked down on the fact that the women had to work. They also viewed the native men as idle, because in europe the rich and nobles were the only ones who hunted. They saw their women working hard as the men lollygagged and hunted. Algonquians viewed the europeans as pathetic dependents because they didn"t even know how to feed themselves.
