Women's Roles

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"She Speaks for Her Clan" by Dorothy Sullivan  

Women's roles in Southeastern tribes -- what were the domestic responsibilities of women generally? Who cut wood? Who did the farming? Were women ever warriors? We hear a lot about the importance of women in Southeastern Indian society...well, did they ever have important political roles -- historically & today? "Who was the Beloved Woman?" Who is Wilma Mankiller & what did she do with a name like that? Who leads the Cherokee now? What about marriage and sex in traditional Indian women's lives? Who were the "trading girls?"  Lots of places for this one to go...

Cherokee People, Mails
Southeastern Indians, Hudson
Eastman & Rodning's book on Gender in the SE. (Mr. Kincheloe has this one...so get it from him.)
John Lawson's description of Indian women  is in  http://rla.unc.edu/Archives/accounts/Lawson/LawsonText4.html 

 

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Who is Wilma Mankiller?