About this episode

This episode discusses the impact of the American Revolution on the Haudenosaunee people, focusing on the resilience and roles of Haudenosaunee women in their survival and sovereignty.

For the Haudenosaunee, the Six Nations People, the American Revolution brought not liberty, but land loss, displacement, and the dismantling of their world. The new United States seized land from Haudenosaunee nations regardless of which side they supported during the Revolution. And yet the Haudenosaunee survived, and Haudenosaunee women are central to this story. In this revisited episode, Maeve Kane, Associate Professor of History at the University at Albany and author of Shirts Powdered Red , reveals how Haudenosaunee women used cloth, trade, and cultural creativity as tools of sovereignty and survival across three centuries of colonial pressure. Maeve's Website | Book | Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/406 RECOMMENDED NEXT EPISODES 🎧 Episode 021: Smuggling in Colonial America & Living History 🎧 Episode 163: The American Revolution in North America 🎧 Episode 223: A native American History of the Ohio River Valley & Great Lakes Region 🎧 Episode 264: The Treaty of Canandaigua 🎧 Episode 353: Women and the Making of Catawba Identity SUPPORT OUR WORK 🎁 Make a Donation to Ben Franklin’s World REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫…

People in this episode

Host: Liz Covart

Guest: Maeve Kane

Topics covered

• Haudenosaunee history
• American Revolution
• women's roles
• colonial pressure
• sovereignty
• cultural creativity

Keywords

• Haudenosaunee
• American Revolution
• women
• sovereignty
• colonialism
• cultural creativity
• land loss
• displacement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University at Albany

Books & works: Shirts Powdered Red

Places: Haudenosaunee, Ohio River Valley, Great Lakes Region

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