The Role Of Women In Native American Societies

Author : Kristina Maul
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638842136

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The Role of Women in Native American Societies by Kristina Maul Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2000 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7 (A-), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Institute for American Studies), course: Native American Indian Stimulations and Philosophies, 32 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: When Europeans first set foot on the new continent they discovered that it had al-ready been settled. At some point ethnographers became interested in those aborigi-nal cultures. They intended to "cultivate" the "savages". During those times hardly anyone was interested, let alone wrote about Native American women and the not unimportant part they played in this unknown culture. If women were mentioned at all, only their duties in the household were described. It is exactly this lack of interest that today makes it hard to get valid information about the life of Native American women at that time. This ignorance caused the white society to form a distorted picture, where the role of American Indian women matched the rather passive one white women had in their own society. They did not comprehend the importance the family represented as the central institution of society, nor the part women played outside the family, or the freedom they had and the rules they needed to obey. It was only in the 1920s, when the image of the "vanishing race" was created, that more material was collected about American Indian women. Stereotypes developed, because the information about America's indigenous peo-ples was presented to us by a third person. This "medium" described the object of interest in his or her own Euro-centric terms and with a certain intention, in this case the want for the land the Natives inhabited. Then the information got generalized and eventually produced an image that mostly had nothing to do with the original object. The question therefore is: "How did and do Native women, along with others, cre-ate Native America?" (Klein & Ackerman: 3)

Author : Laura F. Klein,Lillian A. Ackerman
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806132418

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Women and Power in Native North America by Laura F. Klein,Lillian A. Ackerman Pdf

Power is understood to be manifested in a multiplicity of ways: through cosmology, economic control, and formal hierarchy. In the Native societies examined, power is continually created and redefined through individual life stages and through the history of the society. The important issue is autonomy - whether, or to what extent, individuals are autonomous in living their lives. Each author demonstrates that women in a particular cultural area of aboriginal North America had (and have) more power than many previous observers have claimed.

Author : Sandra Slater,Fay A. Yarbrough
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781643363691

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Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400-1850 by Sandra Slater,Fay A. Yarbrough Pdf

Groundbreaking historical scholarship on the complex attitudes toward gender and sexual roles in Native American culture, with a new preface and supplemental bibliography Prior to the arrival of Europeans in the New World, Native Americans across the continent had developed richly complex attitudes and forms of expression concerning gender and sexual roles. The role of the "berdache," a man living as a woman or a woman living as a man in native societies, has received recent scholarly attention but represents just one of many such occurrences of alternative gender identification in these cultures. Editors Sandra Slater and Fay A. Yarbrough have brought together scholars who explore the historical implications of these variations in the meanings of gender, sexuality, and marriage among indigenous communities in North America. Essays that span from the colonial period through the nineteenth century illustrate how these aspects of Native American life were altered through interactions with Europeans. Organized chronologically, Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400–1850 probes gender identification, labor roles, and political authority within Native American societies. The essays are linked by overarching examinations of how Europeans manipulated native ideas about gender for their own ends and how indigenous people responded to European attempts to impose gendered cultural practices at odds with established traditions. Many of the essays also address how indigenous people made meaning of gender and how these meanings developed over time within their own communities. Several contributors also consider sexual practice as a mode of cultural articulation, as well as a vehicle for the expression of gender roles. Representing groundbreaking scholarship in the field of Native American studies, these insightful discussions of gender, sexuality, and identity advance our understanding of cultural traditions and clashes that continue to resonate in native communities today as well as in the larger societies those communities exist within.

Author : Nancy Shoemaker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136042621

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Negotiators of Change by Nancy Shoemaker Pdf

Negotiators of Change covers the history of ten tribal groups including the Cherokee, Iroquois and Navajo -- as well as tribes with less known histories such as the Yakima, Ute, and Pima-Maricopa. The book contests the idea that European colonialization led to a loss of Native American women's power, and instead presents a more complex picture of the adaption to, and subversion of, the economic changes introduced by Europeans. The essays also discuss the changing meainings of motherhood, women's roles and differing gender ideologies within this context.

Author : Nadine Thäder
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638940634

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Native American Women by Nadine Thäder Pdf

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, University of Hildesheim, 19 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In my Bachelor's Thesis I want to introduce the culture of Native American women, and strike out especially their way of life and their importance in their tribes and communities. I want to deal with the issue of European and European American clich s about Native American women. When we as Europeans think about Native American women today we are influenced by different media like Hollywood movies and books about Native Americans. We might picture a bloodthirsty warrior, sitting on his horse, shouting, his tomahawk raised high above his head. Then we might see the lowly squaw with her baby tied to her back gathering food and little sticks for making a fire. We might also have the "Pocahontas-picture" in our mind and think of the romanticized story of the Indian princess that saved the life of a British soldier. I want to find out if some of these clich s are true and which ones were definitely fabricated by early settlers and continued by European whites who just did not understand Native American society.

Author : Sabine Lang
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292777958

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Men as Women, Women as Men by Sabine Lang Pdf

As contemporary Native and non-Native Americans explore various forms of "gender bending" and gay and lesbian identities, interest has grown in "berdaches," the womanly men and manly women who existed in many Native American tribal cultures. Yet attempts to find current role models in these historical figures sometimes distort and oversimplify the historical realities. This book provides an objective, comprehensive study of Native American women-men and men-women across many tribal cultures and an extended time span. Sabine Lang explores such topics as their religious and secular roles; the relation of the roles of women-men and men-women to the roles of women and men in their respective societies; the ways in which gender-role change was carried out, legitimized, and explained in Native American cultures; the widely differing attitudes toward women-men and men-women in tribal cultures; and the role of these figures in Native mythology. Lang's findings challenge the apparent gender equality of the "berdache" institution, as well as the supposed universality of concepts such as homosexuality.

Author : Rayna Green
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015015886180

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Native American Women by Rayna Green Pdf

Annotated bibliography on works about North American native women. Includes citations of Canadian works.

Author : Wilson Bellacoola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798671933154

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Native American Women by Wilson Bellacoola Pdf

In fulfilling their traditional roles as leaders in their communities, American Indian women are often at the core of American Indian resistance and struggle for liberation. Native women have a long history of assuming leadership positions within their particular tribes. Their struggles share many of the characteristics of women's struggles associated with feminism in the larger society, yet many Native American women explicitly reject the label of feminism. This book explores the reasons some Native women do embrace feminism and why others do not. Through an analysis of literature, and in-depth narrative interviews, This book takes into account the historical oppression of Native peoples, as well as the relative exclusion of Native women in the existing feminist research. What became apparent despite their more central position in their societies, traditional Native women tend not to view themselves as feminists. An important theme running through the book was although Native women, in general, do not have equality of opportunity within larger American society in terms of economic resources, employment, education, health care, etc, and in many cases are solely responsible for the survival of their families. Native women do not view their struggles for more power within their communities and the larger society as being incompatible with the primacy of home and family.

Author : Lois Beardslee
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0816526729

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The Women's Warrior Society by Lois Beardslee Pdf

The WomenÕs Warrior Society is a remarkable gathering of characters and voices used to expose truths about Native American life. In tightly woven prose, Lois Beardslee tells stories about people from all over North America and from either side of the line between abused and abuser. Both individual and archetypal, Native and non-Native, male and female, her characters take up arms against widely accepted stereotypes about Native people. The women warriors in these tales have lived through a variety of mishaps, experiencing the consequences brought on by misinformation and the misguided efforts of institutions and individuals. Armed with this experience, they gather in unlikely ÒsweatlodgesÓÑfrom kitchen tables to public librariesÑtransforming into she-wolves who, lips curled, snarl at their own victimization and assert that hope for future generations is maintained through creativity, determination, and the preservation of traditional values. This is political writing at its most honest and creative. BeardsleeÕs style is poetic and lyrical, and her voice, shifting as it does, both grips us with terrible tone and comforts us with familiar assurance. A fierce call to action, this book reads like a song cycleÑboth singing to us and demanding that we sing in response. Beardslee creates new strategies and measures of success. Her warriors dance, bark, howl, and transform themselves in unexpected ways that invoke tears, laughter, even awe. They are, above all, driven, successful, and eternally hopeful.

Author : Susan Migden Socolow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521196659

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The Women of Colonial Latin America by Susan Migden Socolow Pdf

A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.

Author : Kim Anderson
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780887554162

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Life Stages and Native Women by Kim Anderson Pdf

A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities.The process of “digging up medicines” - of rediscovering the stories of the past - serves as a powerful healing force in the decolonization and recovery of Aboriginal communities. In Life Stages and Native Women, Kim Anderson shares the teachings of fourteen elders from the Canadian prairies and Ontario to illustrate how different life stages were experienced by Metis, Cree, and Anishinaabe girls and women during the mid-twentieth century. These elders relate stories about their own lives, the experiences of girls and women of their childhood communities, and customs related to pregnancy, birth, post-natal care, infant and child care, puberty rites, gender and age-specific work roles, the distinct roles of post-menopausal women, and women’s roles in managing death. Through these teachings, we learn how evolving responsibilities from infancy to adulthood shaped women’s identities and place within Indigenous society, and were integral to the health and well-being of their communities. By understanding how healthy communities were created in the past, Anderson explains how this traditional knowledge can be applied toward rebuilding healthy Indigenous communities today.

Author : Caitie McAneney
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781482428100

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20 Fun Facts About Native American Women by Caitie McAneney Pdf

Many people know that some Native American tribes are matrilineal. That means that historically, women had power in governance and some control in her home life. For the European patriarchs that came to North America, that was quite a shock! Through short, surprising, and often amusing facts, readers learn the role of Native American women in their tribes. Including tribes from across North America, the main content emphasizes their daily lives, clothing, and marriage customs, and introduces important female figures in history. A colorful layout and full-color photographs showcase the power of the Native American woman, a power that still resonates today.

Author : Matilda Joslyn Gage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Women
ISBN : UCD:31175001714909

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Woman, Church and State by Matilda Joslyn Gage Pdf

Author : Baby Professor
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781541919310

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Men, Women and Social Structure - A Cool Guide to Native American Indian Society - US History for Kids | Children's American History by Baby Professor Pdf

All societies follow a social structure. How each structure looks like depends on the local culture, customs and traditions. This US history book for kids will provide an easy-to-understand guide to Native American Indian society. The use of pictures and child-friendly texts will definitely make this book a rewarding learning resource. Grab a copy today!

Author : Carolyn Johnston
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780817350567

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Cherokee Women In Crisis by Carolyn Johnston Pdf

"American Indian women have traditionally played vital roles in social hierarchies, including at the family, clan, and tribal levels. In the Cherokee Nation, specifically, women and men are considered equal contributors to the culture. With this study we learn that three key historical events in the 19th and early 20th centuries-removal, the Civil War, and allotment of their lands-forced a radical renegotiation of gender roles and relations in Cherokee society."--Back cover.