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What you see Haudenoshone people in the 17th and 18th century doing is not only do

settlers, like, very specifically cater to specific items of dress like leggings, like

moccasins, like specific kinds of shirts that Haudenoshone people want.

But then after bringing them home, Haudenishone women would decorate them.

Brian Broadrose, who's a Haudenishone archaeologist of Haudenoshone town sites, calls this the first punk remix culture, which I really like.

Hello and welcome to episode 406 of Ben Franklin's World,

the podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our early American past have shaped the present day world we live in.

And I'm your host, Liz Covart. Historians use a lot of

different sources when they research the past. Many historians, in fact, I'd wager to say most historians,

rely on primary source documents, documents that were written by official government bodies,

or those who were written by the people we're studying, or those who witnessed the

events and change that we're studying. But how do you uncover the stories and the voices of people

who didn't know how to write or whose families simply didn't preserve much of their writing?

This is a particular problem when we study the histories of women. Even among women who did know

how to write,

their families often didn't preserve or keep their writings.

So historians who study women usually have to read between the lines of records created and maintained by men,

and they have to examine other types of primary sources.

Maeve Kane, an associate professor of history at the University at Albany,

and author of the book Shirts Powdered Red, ran into this very problem

as she sought to recover the lives of Haudenishone women.

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