... Haudenosaunee women used access to global trade to maintain a distinct and enduring Haudenosaunee identity in the face of colonial pressures to assimilate and disappear. Drawing on rich oral, archival, material, visual, and quantitative evidence, the book tells the story of how Haudenosaunee people worked...

...This chapter traces how Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) people bought clothing in ways that reflected and created their national identity over the course of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. It emphasizes that Haudenosaunee people used cross-cultural trade to reinforce their nations...