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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Birth | |
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| Infancy in Huronia | |
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| The Powers of Pregnancy | |
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| Micmac Mothering | |
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| Giving Birth on the Gasp� | |
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| The End of Infancy on the Great Lakes | |
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| The Importance of Being Named | |
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| Laboring Under Illusions | |
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| The Pains of Sin in New England | |
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| Easing Birth along the Hudson | |
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| Moravian Indian Mothers | |
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| The Uses of a Carolina Cradleboard | |
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| From an Indian Mother's Mouth | |
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| Coming of Age | |
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| Childrearing on the Great Lakes | |
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| Huron Mischief | |
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| Particular Iroquois Friends | |
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| Growing Up Delaware | |
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| The Search for Leaders in New England | |
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| A Dutch View of New England Leaders | |
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| The Virginia Huskanaw | |
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| Carolina Variations | |
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| The Quest for a Guardian Spirit | |
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| The Mythical Origins of Menominee Menstruation | |
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| Female Visions Among the Illinois | |
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| Huron Stay-At-Homes | |
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| Seclusion among the Delawares | |
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| More Micmac Menstrual Power | |
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| Cause to Fear in Canada | |
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| Becoming a Woman in the Midwest | |
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| Love and Marriage | |
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| Huron Unions | |
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| Marital Fidelity on the Great Lakes | |
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| Polygamy in Canada | |
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| Micmac Modesty | |
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| Wampum for Wives in New England | |
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| Love Charms and Venality among the Delawares | |
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| Married Continence in the Carolinas | |
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| A Fox Woman Finds True Love | |
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| Working | |
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| The Making of the Myth | |
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| Native Noblemen in Huronia | |
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| Bringing Home the Bear on the Great Lakes | |
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| In a Micmac Hunting Camp | |
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| Squaw Drudges and Lazy Gourmands in New England | |
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| Squaw Drudges and Lazy Gourmands in New England | |
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| The Iroquoi's Work Bee | |
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| Sugaring with the Delawares | |
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| Fishing Frolics and Communal Corn in the Southeast | |
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| Putting Down the Myth: a Male View | |
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| Putting Down the Myth: a Female View | |
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| Peace and War | |
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| Of Huron Councils and Montagnais Feasts | |
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| The Etiquette of Feasting Among the Micmacs | |
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| The Iroquois Gynecocracy | |
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| Sir William Meets the Matrons | |
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| The Delawares as Women | |
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| The Iroquois Call to War | |
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| Warring with the Illinois | |
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| Heaven and Earth | |
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| The World on the Turtle's Back | |
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| The First Ottawas | |
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| Religion in the Native Northeast | |
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| Religion in the Native Northeast | |
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| The Woman Who Would Be Priest | |
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| Idols, Priests, and Rainmakers in Virginia | |
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| Death | |
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| Huron Feasts of the Dead | |
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| The Algonquian Way of Death | |
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| Micmac Suicide | |
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| Painted Posts and Funeral Change among the Delawares | |
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| Taking Leave of the Dead in the Carolinas | |
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| Full Circle Among the Fox | |
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| Suggested Readings | |