However, Brown asserts how gender roles and identities shaped the perceptions and interactions of both English settlers and Native American civilizations. Both Indian and English societies have critical social orders between males and females. Furthermore, their cultural difference is also reflected in the sins of English and Indian men and women. However, the people of India place too much responsibility on their women. Women were responsible as farmers, producers, and customers of vital household goods and implements. They also had control of providing much of the material culture of daily necessities such as clothing, household tools, and furnishings such as baskets, bedding, and home construction. Native American women were expected to perform a variety of tasks. On the other hand, Indian men simply cleared new planting grounds and constantly left the villages to fish and hunt. Clearly, Native Indian women had more duties than men. Thus, the social and occupational roles of Indian males became distinct from those of females at the time of the huskanaw (a rite of passage through which Virginia Indian boys became men) and remained so until the men were too old to hunt or go to war. The English commentator George Percy points out: “Men take pleasure in hunting and in their wares, in which they are continually found.” “On the other hand, women were heavily burdened,” says another commentator, John Smith. Gender is directly referential in an important sense, describing how sexual division was understood in the social order. Consequently, Native Americans prescribed the gendered social practice that women should be burdened with a set of responsibilities over those