Cherokee Women in Charge

Cherokee Women in Charge

Female Power and Leadership in American Indian Nations of Eastern North America

Cooper, Karen Coody

McFarland & Co Inc

03/2022

245

Mole

Inglês

9781476688183

15 a 20 dias

459

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Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Cherokee Female Empowerment

?1?Elements Empowering Cherokee Women

?2?Terms of Endearment: Matriarchy, Matrilineal, Matrifocal

?3?Under the Female Sun: Mythologies and Ethos

?4?Female Sexuality in Cherokee Matrilineal Society

?5?The Labor of Cherokee Women

?6?Ghigooie and the Influence of Matrilineal Power

?7?Visualizing Cherokee Women and Their Homes

?8?A Bushel of Chestnuts for a Petticoat: Barter and Trade

?9?Perspective: The Iroquois Great Law and Jigonsaseh

10?Beloved War Women's Authority: Life or Death

11?Ingenuity in Creative Arts: Weaving and More

12?Creating Life: Pleasure and Pain

13?Chiefs' Hospitality Provided by Women

14?Women's Ceremonial Life: Festivals, Dance and Games

Part II: Women of Other Matrilineal Cultures of Eastern North America

15?Sixth through 16th Century: Yucatan, Hispaniola and Cofitachequi

16?Seventeenth Century Women of Powhatan, Manhattan, Delaware and Pocasset

17?Eighteenth Century "Sinicker" Queen, Creek Empress and Canadian Mohawk Lady

18?Nineteenth Century Choctaw Little Blue Hen and Chickie and Chockie's Chickasaw Mother

19?Two Twentieth Century Seminole Female Chiefs

Part III: Enduring Strengths Continue in -Post-Matrilineal Era

20?Nineteenth Century Cherokee Cultural Evolution: Legislation, Missionaries, Patriliny

21?Cherokee Women Enduring the Trail of Tears

22?Enterprising Susan Coody and the California Gold Rush

23?The Civil War's Cherokee Female Refugees

24?Institutions in the Absence of Former Matrilineal Networks

25?Suffrage: A U.S. Senator's Mother and a Tammany Hall Heiress

26?Cherokee Women: Preservers of Heritage, History and Language

27?Modern Era War Women: In the Line of Defense

28?Sustaining Ancient Skills and Developing New Arts

29?Great Depression Survivors: A Migrant Mother and a Space Engineer

30?Twentieth Century Female Cherokee Chiefs: Wilma Mankiller and Joyce Dugan

31?Excelling in a -Post-Modern World: Poet Laureates, Prima Ballerinas and More

Afterword: Be Indomitable: What Is Cultural? What Is Biological?

References

Index
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indigenous women; French War; Indian War; artisans; chief; culture