Discussion Question 5: Before the Europeans’ arrival, the gender roles in Puebloan society were loose. The Puebloans believed that both men and women influenced different areas of their lives, thus not one gender had more power over the other. The women spent most of the days preparing food for their households. The men worked the fields: sons worked their mothers’ corn plots, brothers their sisters’, and husbands their mother-in-laws’. In a horticultural society, the women asserted power and control over household activities such as seed production and child-rearing while the men communicated with the gods and protected the village from dissent and factionalism.
Women of the Iroquois have a lot of roles in the society such as voting who will be the chief/leader of them; they keep their culture alive, and cook. There are other things women had to do in the Iroquois society. Women in the Iroquois society have to stay in the long houses to cook, take care of children, prepare the food, and making the clothes for their families. Women also have a lot of authority and power in the society because of their high value to the natives.
The main message about the culture that was portrayed in the book titled Ceremony was about the persistence of Native American culture to evolve the ceremony traditions in order to adapt to the changing environment and heal Tayo’s illness from the World War II. This was demonstrated by Ku’oosh, who was a medicine man, discovers that he can no longer cure Tayo of his sickness due to only his knowledge in traditional ceremony practices. He then sends Tayo to another medicine man known as Betonie, who can cure him of his sickness due to his ability to adapt and modify a ceremony tradition to meet the demands of Tayo’s new generation. However, Tayo learns that the ceremony can only be completed once he was able to encompass elements of the Native
The duality between feminine and masculine forces is what makes all life on Earth possible. Although there are many Wiccans who worship in groups,
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.
An alternative role in many American Indian cultures is called berdache. Berdache is a morphological male who doesn’t fit within a society’s standard male role. They have a non-masculine character to them and does not fit in with the females or males, but exist within their own gender role. The berdaches are normally the passive partner in sex with the men, and in some cases become a wife to the man. For a long time, this would be viewed as wrong in a Western Americans mind.
Native Americans’ social structure was very different from the way Anglo-American’s believed was the correct way for men and women to live. This created a major conflict as the Anglo’s begin to press on the Natives’ land. Anglo-American’s believed that the best thing for the Natives’ was to be assimilated and transformed into their way of life. The Anglo’s intervened into the Natives’ life with a Civilization Program, removal and reservations, and boarding schools. The ramifications had lasting negative effects on the Natives’ gender roles.
Although Native Americans are characterized as both civilized and uncivilized in module one readings, their lifestyles and culture are observed to be civilized more often than not. The separate and distinct duties of men and women (Sigard, 1632) reveal a society that has defined roles and expectations based on gender. There are customs related to courtship (Le Clercq, 1691) that are similar to European cultures. Marriage was a recognized union amongst Native Americans, although not necessarily viewed as a serious, lifelong commitment like the Europeans (Heckewelder, 1819). Related to gender roles in Native American culture, Sigard writes of the Huron people that “Just as the men have their special occupation and understand wherein a man’s duty consists, so also the women and girls keep their place and perform quietly their little tasks and functions of service”.
Language barrier is a very important factor to be put in perspective when caring for an Asian American client. According to the president’s advisory commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. 42% of Vietnamese American, 41% of Korean American, and 40% of Chinese American household are linguistically isolated. This designation means that no one in the household age 14 years or older speaks English very well. (Kramer, Kwong, Lee, & Chung, 2002).
When many picture the life of Native Americans prior to their contact with Europeans, they picture the basic stereotype Indians with feathers in their hair and dancing around the fire. This way of life is far from the truth. The Native American societies have a great and diverse history. Native Americans excelled in adapting to the different environments they encountered. From the harsh conditions of the Artic from the hot, blazing deserts they found a way to strive.
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. Men in the Choctaw tribe, had the basic jobs of any Native American tribe.
The original inhabitants of North America were actually the first people to be subordinated by Europeans. The Native Americans who survived contact with the white people who landed in Plymouth Rock and other east coast locales were usually removed from their ancestral homes; usually far away from their homes (Schiffer, 2004). What we have written so far in this chapter about conceptualizing childhood applied mostly to European children and some American children. But how childhood was conceptualized in Native American tribes comes from either white settlers or missionaries – not from Native Americans themselves. It seems, however, that Native Americans children were handled permissively by their parents and not subjected to corporal punishment
Although this characteristic cannot be very accurate nowadays because many people in Canada (and all around the world) might describe themselves to be neither male or female
Native Americans Native Americans are very different from other tribes. They eat, live, dress and do many things differently. The things I’m going to be talking about in my interesting paper is What they eat? What they wear? Where they live?
In addition, within patriarchy, there exists the concept of androcentrism, which states that the male perspective is dominant, and the female
