Historic Cherry Hill is pleased to welcome Dr. Maeve Kane as a special speaker at the 25th Annual Albany History Fair, “400 Years of Going Dutch.” At 12:30 p.m., Dr. Kane, Associate Professor of History at the University at Albany and author of Shirts Powdered Red: Haudenosaunee Gender, Trade, and Exchange Across Three Centuries, will discuss Indigenous-Dutch trade in early New York.
Cloth and clothing were the threads that connected early Dutch settlers in Albany economically, socially, and politically to Indigenous nations. In this talk, Dr. Kane will discuss how the cloth trade with Indigenous nations shaped Albany’s place in international politics from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century.
Maeve Kane received her BA from Macalester College and her MA and PhD from Cornell University. At UAlbany, she teaches courses in early American history, Indigenous history, and digital methods for historians, where she has received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her first book with Cornell University Press is Shirts Powdered Red: Haudenosaunee Gender, Trade and Exchange Across Three Centuries, which argues that Haudenosaunee people used clothing and trade to preserve their nations’ sovereignty from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. She is also the author of a women’s history textbook and is currently at work on projects examining how baptismal relationships formed communities in early America and how modern historical reenactments shape the public memory of early America.