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Marrero uses the Le Pésant affair of 1706 as a turning point in this process and she notes that the colonial authorities' shifting attitudes reflected the growing sense of a new political agency in Detroit. Marrero sets herself the task of examining the evolving kinship networks as they developed over the course of Detroit's first century. Marrero really hits her stride in the next two chapters as she examines the role of women in the French-Indigenous family networks and at the center of the events comprising (what she calls) Pontiac's war. [Extracted from the article]