It's critical we pay attention to what our sources unintentionally show, not only to what they deliberately say.

I'm currently working on notarized credit and real estate contracts from early 19th-century #Wendake, the #Wendat community just outside of #Québec City. Virtually none of the men, whether settler or #Indigenous, whose names the notary and the law put front and center, ever signed their these contracts. Women, however, did. #history #histodons #WomensHistory @histodons