Episode 41
18:26

Indigenous Women in the Wake of Catastrophe

Published November 5, 2026

How disease and war changed the status of Wendat and Innu women in the mid 17th century with a great deal of influence by the Jesuits. Sources: Chain Her By O...

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How disease and war changed the status of Wendat and Innu women in the mid 17th century with a great deal of influence by the Jesuits.

Sources:

Chain Her By One Foot: The Subjugation of Native Women in Seventeenth-Century New France by Karen Anderson

Anderson, Karen. “As Gentle as Little Lambs: Images of Huron and Montagnais-Naskapi Women in the Writings of the 17th Century Jesuits.” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 25, no. 4 (November 1988): 560–576. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-618X.1988.tb00120.x

Dunn, Mary. “Neither One Thing Nor the Other: Discursive Polyvalence and Representations of Amerindian Women in the Jesuit Relations.” Journal of Jesuit Studies 3, no. 2 (2016): 179–196. https://doi.org/10.1163/22141332-00302001

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Episode
41
Duration
18:26
Published
November 5, 2026