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A 12 page paper examining the realities of Native existence, as opposed to the view of largely white male anthropologists and historians have taken over the years. Native women were intensely involved in their tribes’ religions, as well as in nearly every other aspect of their societies. Women’s involvement had less to do with gender-based division of labor than it did the Native view of the nature of life. Everything is connected, everything has a purpose. Men’s roles were no more important than women’s, only different. Each sex shared responsibility for their people’s survival, and each shared in the observances and ritual of their religions. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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File: CC6_KSindWomRel.rtf
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worlds predominantly white male anthropologists and historians consistently either have overlooked or have consciously diminished womens roles in Native American society. Conventional wisdom holds that women were to tend
to household duties and children, leaving all important activities of the tribes to the men. Women have emerged as medicine women or shamans in some Native societies, but generally
they are given little more significant roles than those, and even those instances are unusual. Native women were intensely involved in their tribes
religions, however. Womens involvement had less to do with gender-based division of labor than it did the Native view of the nature of life. Everything is connected, everything
has a purpose. Mens roles were no more important than womens, only different. Each sex shared responsibility for their peoples survival, and each shared in the observances and
ritual of their religions. Recording History What has been recorded and written about over the centuries has not been necessarily untrue, but it
more reflects the perceptions of mainstream society at the time that the accounts were written. It was Native men with whom the "outside" world had the greatest degree of
contact, for women typically remained at home when the men of tribe had contact with the Europeans who encroached ever closer into their lands. The fact that Native histories
and traditions are based on oral histories also contributes to the lack of recorded evidence on which historians and anthropologists have based their work. It was not until Sequoyia
devised the Cherokee syllabary in 1830 that Cherokee history began to be recorded, and by that time the Europeans already had begun to become envious of Cherokee lands (Perdue, 2000).
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