Sara Evans’ "Born for Liberty" Chapter 1 – Flashcards
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Hunters
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Mostly men
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Gatherers
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Mostly women
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Women in terms of "gender solidarity"
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Women worked together and helped each other perform necessary tasks
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Name 3 roles of Native American women
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Gatherers, food processors, and child rearing
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Earth Mother
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A spiritual entity whose body was thought to produce food
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Keeper of the Game
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A female entity that kept track of proper prayer and dispensed punishments when prayer was amiss
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Menstruation
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Capable of destroying crops and draining the power of men
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Menstruation huts
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Places where women went when they were on their periods
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According to the notes, how did Native Americans feel about homosexual relationships?
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Tribes encouraged sexual expressiveness--in other words, they were cool with it :D
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Where did women's political power come from?
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Kinship relations (it was all who they were related to)
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What was the biggest impact that the Europeans had on the Native American population?
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Deadly diseases like small pox, typhoid, measles, etc.
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The fur trade did what for gender roles?
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Helped to sharpen the separation between men and women; men would often be gone away on long hunts
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What animal transformed Native American life?
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Horses; with horses, Native Americans could now get resources faster
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Male-hearted girls
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Tomboys (essentially) that were allowed to behave in masculine ways thanks to the "Double Woman Dreamer", a spirit that permitted women to behave aggressively
