Gender Roles In Native Americans

What were the roles of genders in the Great Plains Tribes. The women in the tribes were to cook, make clothing, and tend to the newborns. The elders of the tribe would meet together and name the child. They often times were also put in charge of gathering water and firewood to the campsite. Women were also given the task to set up and take down the teepee. While the women were at camp the men were to go hunt and gather wild game for food.

Theda Perdue`s Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835, is a book that greatly depicts what life had been like for many Native Americans as they were under European Conquering. This book was published in 1998, Perdue was influenced by a Cherokee Stomp Dance in northeastern Oklahoma. She had admired the Cherokee society construction of gender which she used as the subject of this book. Though the title Cherokee Women infers that the book focuses on the lives of only Cherokee women, Perdue actually shines light upon the way women 's roles affected the Native cultures and Cherokee-American relations. In the book, there is a focus on the way that gender roles affected the way different tribes were run in the 1700 and 1800`s. Native

Throughout the course of American history, Native American women have repeatedly become primary targets of sexual violence from non-native men. Around one in three Native American women has been raped or had undergone attempted rape, which makes them the largest race to experience sexual abuse than any other race in the United States. Before any contact was established between the Natives and the European settlers, the Native population had thrived off the land and they had their own criminal justice systems, which was meant to help all Native citizens find justice (Griffith, 5). Unfortunately, their efficient way of life would soon be interrupted forever following the arrival of white setters upon their lands.

· The Appalachian culture is dominantly patriarchal. The women and men both of this culture have roles. The males of the family tend to make the major decisions in the family; however the women have a strong influence on the family too. The women are the nurturer of the family and provide care at home. The men also provide the money for the family as they are the ones that usually work and are able to stand on their own.

The main things that Native American and people today accept that it is a good thing to have could be the balance in the nature . According to the World on the turtle’s back story ,the twin brothers created balance to this world like Yin and Yang which you might often see in many Asian cultures . Yin and Yang represent the Balance in thing ,in black there’s still white and in white there’s still black . Left- handed twin who ‘s considered that he has a crooked mind ended up telling the truth . On the other hand ,the right-handed twin who’s considered that he has a straight mind and always tell the truth ended up lying to his brother . This shows that there’s no completely black or white in this world so the balance between these two is so important

While some of the cultural norms and expectations varied slightly amongst the members of the Sioux, Navajo, and Cherokee tribes, it seems as though the cultural communicative behaviors and/or many of the norms and expectations were overall exceedingly similar across these three tribes.

The Choctaw Indian Tribe is very different in terms of the roles of the men and the women. Women assume the position of leader in most cases. However, they all have to work together. Men, women, and children have to come together to help the tribe to function.

Another rich source of misunderstanding between Native Americans and modern society’s cultural analysis is the different attitude of most Native Americans to such concepts as Nature, the environment, and social values,

Native Americans are commonly considered uncivilized, savage, and barbarian. Nevertheless, in reality the Natives are not characterized by any of those negative traits, but rather they inhabit positive characteristics such as being wise, polite, tolerant, civilized, harmonious with nature, etc. They have had a prodigious impact on the Puritans

While reading about American history the thing that I found most appealing was the limited rights that women had during this era. Although women gave the early settlers longer life expectancy and brought hope to their future, women still were not considered equal to a man. Women were discriminated against and didn’t play an important role in early American history. Generally, women had fewer legal rights and career opportunity than men because they were considered weak and not able to perform certain tasks. Different women came from different ethnic backgrounds and were all created equal in the eyes of men. Men believed that women served only one purpose which was to take care of the household. Being a wife and a mother was considered

Before Christopher Columbus sailed the Atlantic Ocean to discover America in 1492, various groups of people had already located America. These groups of people were known as tribes. Tribes were often divided into several cultural groups because of the different beliefs and ideas they each followed. Although tribes date far back into history, they are still popular among millions of people today. According to the United States Census Bureau: “There are about 4.5 million Native Americans and Alaska Natives in the United States today. That is about 1.5 percent of the population” (History.com). Of all the tribes in the US today, one of the most popular tribes are the Cherokee Indian Tribes. They initially settled in the southeastern parts of the

As the Cherokee became more dependent on the trade goods provided by the Europeans, the importance of agriculture weakened while the influence of trade and warfare grew. This resulted in men’s power to grow within the Cherokee society at the cost of the women’s power. At the same time, the U.S. government made several attempts to implant Euro-American values onto the Cherokee. Perdue later explains how the U.S. government’s objective was to confine Cherokee women and limit their power to domestic affairs. At first glance, the Cherokee Nation accepted many of the Americans ideology and values. For example, in the early nineteenth century, the Cherokee government began to prioritize individual rights and personal property. However, the matrilineal clan’s power still existed. Women still had strong spiritual and judicial control, and “women’s roles and women’s concerns remained central to the Cherokee republic” (p.

The question is; should cultural treasures should be returned to their countries of origin? The answer is yes. For example; Native American cultural, spiritual sites like the Black hills and Mato Paha (bear butte) was taken by the europeans that travelled here and took their land also. These cultural landmarks had cultural, and religious association for the area from which were taken from the government and settlers. The sites like: Mato Tipila (Devils tower), Hinhan Kaga (Harney Peak), Mato Paha (Bear Butte), and He Sapa (Black Hills) were all once a sacred site for all native tribes for religious reasons, but the europeans came and took their sacred sites, their land, and their animals, commonly the buffalo. They also massacre more Native

“That all these women be shared among the men, that no individual woman and man should live together, and that the children, too, should be shared, with no parent knowing its own offspring, and no child its parent”(147 Plato) Up until approximately 400 BC, it was inferred that women should have the basic political, principle rights men do. In Minnesota, there is evidence and examples of how the tribes such as the Ojibwas dealt with and were influenced by some of the actions that took place. The Indians were forced deeper into dependency, women treated disrespectfully, and exploitation was taking place at a rapid pace. Because of the changes that took place from the invasion of European settlers,

The Native practices that mostly influenced European’s views of Indian sexuality was the way natives split the duties for their family. For example, the men would hunt, while the women would stay and tend to the agricultural needs. Europeans thought differently since hunting to them was considered a sport and saw the Native men as being lazy. Another viewpoint was the idea of marriage. For instance, Native women were allowed to practice polygyny with certain