Savage Systers: Native Women, Violence, and Power in Colonial America Volume 2

Savage Systers: Native Women, Violence, and Power in Colonial America overturns the conventional story of America's frontier. Too often relegated to the margins of history, Native women have been cast as submissive figures, auxiliaries to the real business of men. This book dismantles that fiction.

Drawing on encounters between the Creeks of the Southeast and the Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia in the eighteenth century, Savage Systers reveals a world in which Native women wielded power through means...