The Squaw Drudge: what native women were not

"The Squaw Drudge" focuses on misconceptions created by english colonizers of native people(s) in order to justify the displacement of native people from their lands/homes. Englishmen claimed native women were treated poorly and were forced to do all the work by native men, who according to english colonists were lazy and spent their time engaged in leisure activities such as hunting and fishing. Colonists also referred to native people in a derogatory manner with labels such as; "savages" , "barbaric", and "uncivilized". By creating this faulty image of native people english colonists rationalized even further their claim to colonize North America and to disregard native people(s) completely. In fact native women were more equal to men than white women were to white men. Perhaps englishmen were threatened by this, seeing women performing work thought men should be doing. English colonists did not consider native people to be equal to them simply because native men and women had a different way of living and culture which was their own. Natives' also posed a threat to colonists because they stood in the way of further colonization by settlers.