 | Sara Evans - 1997 - 454 sider
...in case they meet with success in hunting, who is to carry the produce of their labour? Women . . . also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night; and, in fact, there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance, or for any length of... | |
 | Jeannette Mirsky - 1970 - 400 sider
...plenty of women in his party — he never traveled without from five to eight wives — for, as he said, "one of them can carry, or haul as much as two men can do." Manatobie's plans took into account certain primary facts: their route led from the forest belt across... | |
 | Nancy Millar - 2000 - 280 sider
...multiple wives — eight by some counts — and he had this to say about them, "Women were made for labor; one of them can carry, or haul, as much as two men can. They also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night, and in fact there is... | |
 | James Rodger Miller - 2000 - 510 sider
...were successful, 'who is to carry the produce of their labour?' Women, Matonabbee explained, 'were made for labour; one of them can carry, or haul as...make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night; and in fact there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance, or for any length of time... | |
 | Elizabeth Vibert - 1997 - 388 sider
...Ostensibly quoting his Chipewyan guide Matonabbee, Hearne wrote that: Women . . . were made for labor; one of them can carry, or haul, as much as two men...make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night; and, in fact, there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance, or for any length of... | |
 | Robert V. Hine, John Mack Faragher - 2000 - 634 sider
...packs. "One woman can carry, or haul, as much as two men can do," a Chipewyan chief told a trader. "They also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night; and in fact there is no such thing as traveling any considerable distance, or for any length of time,... | |
 | Nancy F. Cott - 2000 - 662 sider
...wilderness guide summed it up in the early 1770s. Women, he noted, were essential as porters. Moreover, they "pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night; and, in fact, there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance, or for any length of... | |
 | Sally Alexander - 2001 - 464 sider
...necessary, and a North American Indian is reported to have said to Hearne: 'Women were made for labor. One of them can carry or haul as much as two men.' Feminine control over the means of production led to great power, and evidences of this are to be found... | |
 | Jennifer Speake - 2003 - 540 sider
...the guides and because no women had been taken on the journey. Women, according to Matonabbee, were "made for labour; one of them can carry, or haul, as much as two men might do. They also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night"; in his view... | |
 | Tim Jepson, Phil Lee - 2004 - 1164 sider
...comments of his Chipewyan guide concerning the importance of women: ^ o " 'Women', added he, 'were made for labour; one of them can carry, or haul, as...also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, u> keep us warm at night; and, in fact, there is no such thing as travelling any > considerable distance... | |
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were made for labour; one of them can carry, or haul, as much as two men can do. They also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night; and, in fact, there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance, or for any length... 
