The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

Niantic, Scaticook, Piscataway, and Powhatan groups” (p. 60n).
10. Grumet, “Sunksquaws,” p. 60.
11. Grumet, “Sunksquaws,” p. 50.
12. Grumet, “Sunksquaws,” p. 50.
13. Grumet, “Sunksquaws,” p. 50.
14. Grumet, “Sunksquaws,” p. 51.
15. Grumet, “Sunksquaws,” pp. 51–52.
16. Grumet, “Sunksquaws,” pp. 51–52.
17. Grumet, “Sunksquaws,” pp. 52–53.
18. Lieutenant Henry Timberlake, Lieut. Henry Timberlake’s
Memoirs (Marietta, Ga., 1948), p. 94 and n. 56. Cited in
Foreman, Indian Women Chiefs, p. 76.
19. Timberlake, Memoirs, p. 94 and n. 56. Cited in Foreman,
Indian Women Chiefs, p. 77.
20. Colonel James D. Wofford, whose name is frequently
spelled Wafford, cited in Foreman, Indian Women Chiefs, p. 85.
21. Foreman, Indian Women Chiefs, p. 79.
22. Eleanor Leacock, “Montaignais Women and the Jesuit
Program for Colonization,” in Etienne and Leacock, Women and
Colonization, p. 27. She is citing R. G. Thwaites, ed., The
Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, 71 vols. (Cleveland:
Burrows Brothers Co., 1906), 2:77.
23. Leacock, “Montaignais Women,” p. 27. Le Jeune’s
remarks from Thwaites, Jesuit Relations, 6:233.
24. Leacock, “Montaignais Women,” p. 27. Thwaites, Jesuit
Relations, 12:169.
25. Leacock, “Montaignais Women,” p. 28. Thwaites, Jesuit
Relations, 5:197.
26. Leacock, “Montaignais Women,” p. 30. Thwaites, Jesuit
Relations, 16:165.
27. Leacock, “Montaignais Women,” p. 30. Thwaites, Jesuit
Relations, 6:243.
28. Leacock, “Montaignais Women,” pp. 40–41.