“She Was the Means of Leading into the Light”

• Main Author: Williams, Carol J
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University PressNew York, NY 2003
• Subjects: Tsimshian; Tsimshian*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195146301.003.0004; https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/53287283/isbn-9780195146301-book-part-4.pdf

Abstract While our knowledge of Native American women’s response to contact is fragmentary, women were represented in written and photographic documents generated by explorers, traders, colonial travelers, government officials, and missionaries between 1830 and 1880 1. The editorial concerns expressed by eighteenth-century explorers and early-nineteenth-century traders and travelers about women’s dress, behavior, mobility, labor, and morality established a distinct pattern and a judgmental tone that gave way to a uniform call for the reform of Native American women by the mid–nineteenth century.