Imperial Entanglements: Iroquois Change and Persistence on the Frontiers of Empire

For both the Iroquois and their British neighbors, these categories were in flux because of both intercultural contact and the broader social transformations that attended colonialism. Because gender played a critical part in organizing the Iroquois economy, ideas about the roles of men and women, and the relationships between different categories of men and women, shifted along with new economic adaptations.