1. Mary Jemison A Seneca Woman
Women in the Seneca tribe were often faced with harsh trials of life, including troubled pregnancies, short marriages with often absent husbands, and rough phases to face with their young children. ... When a Seneca woman's pregnancy ended well and the child was lucky enough to live, the Seneca tribe was often traveling from place to place in search of new, fertile land to farm. ... The European men came from a society were a woman's ideal job was only that of leisure, and here they see that women skin the animals that their husbands kill (84). ...
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