 | James Everett Seaver - Genesee River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) - 1898 - 332 pages
...warmly attached in consideration of the favors, affection, and friendship with which they had uniformily treated me from the time of my adoption. Our labor...we could work as leisurely as we pleased. We had no plows on the Ohio, but performed the whole process of planting and hoeing with a small tool that resembled,... | |
 | Arthur Caswell Parker - Corn - 1910 - 200 pages
...142. « Seaver. Life of Mary Jemison, p. 69. generally had our children with us ; but had no masters to oversee or drive us, so that we could work as leisurely as we pleased. With the breaking up of the military power of the Iroquois and the subjection of all Indian tribes... | |
 | Arthur Caswell Parker - Corn - 1910 - 198 pages
...142. 6 Seaver. Life of Mary Jemison, p. 69. generally had our children with us ; but had no masters to oversee or drive us, so that we could work as leisurely as we pleased. With the breaking up of the military power of the Iroquois and the subjection of all Indian tribes... | |
 | Science - 1910 - 696 pages
...142. ' Seaver. . Life of Mary Jemison, p. 69. generally had our children with us ; but had no masters to oversee or drive us, so that we could work as leisurely as we pleased. With the breaking up of the military power of the Iroquois and the subjection of all Indian tribes... | |
 | JACOB PIATT DUNN - 1919 - 694 pages
...harder than that of white women who have those articles provided for them; and their cares are certainly not half as numerous nor as great. In the summer season...corn, and generally had all our children with us; but we had no master to oversee or drive us, so that we could work as leisurely as we pleased. * * * In... | |
 | 1910 - 688 pages
...142. ' Seaver. Life of Mary Jemison, p. 69. generally had our children with us; but had no masters to oversee or drive us, so that we could work as leisurely as we pleased. With the breaking up of the military power of the Iroquois and the subjection of all Indian tribes... | |
 | Annette Kolodny - History - 1984 - 326 pages
...probably not harder than that of white women, who have those articles provided for them," she told Seaver, "and their cares certainly are not half as numerous,...so that we could work as leisurely as we pleased" (A//, pp. 46, 47). The same theme is repeated in a later chapter. While males of the tribe attended... | |
 | James Everett Seaver - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 226 pages
...300-3; Joan Jensen, "Native American Women and Agriculture: A Seneca Case Study," See 84 below. said "we planted, tended and harvested our corn, and generally...so that we could work as leisurely as we pleased. "3" A world of seasonal cycles was the ongoing continuity of Seneca life. The foods women planted were... | |
 | June Namias - Social Science - 1993 - 404 pages
...this was not the case: "My situation was easy; I had no particular hardships to endure." She observes: Notwithstanding the Indian women have all the fuel...we could work as leisurely as we pleased. We had no plough on the Ohio; but performed the whole process of planting and hoeing with a small tool that resembled,... | |
 | Teresa L. Amott, Julie A. Matthaei - Business & Economics - 1996 - 466 pages
...severe; and that of one year was exactly similar, in almost every respect, to that of the others. . .Notwithstanding the Indian women have all the fuel...so that we could work as leisurely as we pleased." New scholarship, much of it by American Indian women, has reinterpreted many of the old accounts of... | |
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Notwithstanding the Indian women have all the fuel and bread to procure, and the cooking to perform, their task is probably not harder than that of white women, who have those articles provided for them ; and their cares certainly are not half as numerous,... 
