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The reasons these laborers were consistently neglected or underestimated within historical recollection and commemoration initiated the preliminary motivation for Indigenous Women and Work: From Labor to Activism. Certainly colonial self-interest and other suspect motives allowed Indigenous workers to be unregulated, underwaged (or withheld from earnings), underenumerated, and judgmentally scrutinized. indd 20 8/7/12 1:41 PM Introduction 21 and discriminatory treatment of Indigenous women occurred nor whether the parallel symptom of historical neglect within nation-building, Women’s History, and Labor History resulted from fear, laziness, unconscious blindness, racism, or any combination therein.
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