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Answers For Student Activity Sheet
Activity #1
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Question |
Weetanusk |
Eunice Mather Williams |
| a. |
Year born |
1653 |
1664 |
| b. |
Work |
Collecting spruce roots for sewing
Boiling pine tar
Tracking animals
Sewing clothing and moccasins
Tanning hides
Stringing wampum
Weaving baskets
Cooking
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Sewing
Spinning
Knitting
Childcare
Cooking
Butchering
Caring for large vegetable garden
Milking
Making beer
Washing clothes |
| c. |
Roles |
Looking after others
Remembering old stories to pass on |
Running a household (including caring for family, slaves and garrisoned soldiers) |
| d. |
Values |
Making good decisions
Pride
Strength |
Reading and writing (because she was a minister’s daughter)
Piety
Strength
Courage
Faith in God |
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Concerns |
War/fear of attack by English and other Native peoples
Scarce game
Being forced to move further west from the Connecticut River |
Fear of attack by Native peoples
Husband did not always receive his pay
Healthy birth |
Activity #2
Eunice's items- copper kettle, cradle, a table, chairs, iron kettle, tapestry cover, shoes, snowshoes, pocket, cloak
Weetanusk's items- covered basket, wooden bowl, beads, gorget, snowshoes,moccasins, sash, copper kettle
Shared items- copper kettle, snowshoes
Activity #3
The Assault on Peskeompskut took place in 1676. Weetanusk was 23 years old and Eunice Mather Williams was 12 years old.
Answers For Class Discussion
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- In common - childcare, caring for others, fear of attack, having enough food
- Misunderstandings - why the Native people wouldn’t leave an area the English thought they owned; why the English attacked innocent people at Peskeomskut; why the English wanted the Pocumtuck to move; why the English wanted old furs
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- a. Eunice - the English attacked Peskeompskut to boost morale
amongst their troops, to stay on the offensive, and to help
stop Native peoples from attacking them and trying to force
the English to give up their new settlements; the English felt
victorious; in order to survive they needed to feel safe from
attack, which meant driving all Native people away, if possible
so they could live in permanent settlements, and own land; they
felt threatened by the Native peoples who wanted them to go
away; they were wrong for taking over and not being more willing
to cooperate, but they felt the need to retaliate.
- b. Weetanusk - she might not have understood why Peskeompskut
was attacked, versus somewhere else; she saw the massacre as
wrong because there were no warriors to fight back and innocent
women, children and old men were killed; her people needed access
to their sources of food and a place safe from attack in order
to survive; her people felt threatened by an increasing English
population, by being forced to follow English laws, by disagreement
over land ownership and use; she was right to feel the way she
did.
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