Cherokee women wielded significant power, and history demonstrates that in what is now America, indigenous women often bore the greater workload, both inside and outside the home. During the French and Indian War, Cherokee women resisted a chief's authority, owned family households, were skilled artisans, produced plentiful crops, mastered trade negotiations, and prepared chiefs' feasts. Cherokee culture was lost when the Cherokee Nation began imitating the American form of governance to gain political favor, and white colonists reduced indigenous women's power. This book recounts…mehr
Cherokee women wielded significant power, and history demonstrates that in what is now America, indigenous women often bore the greater workload, both inside and outside the home. During the French and Indian War, Cherokee women resisted a chief's authority, owned family households, were skilled artisans, produced plentiful crops, mastered trade negotiations, and prepared chiefs' feasts. Cherokee culture was lost when the Cherokee Nation began imitating the American form of governance to gain political favor, and white colonists reduced indigenous women's power. This book recounts long-standing Cherokee traditions and their rich histories. It demonstrates Cherokee and indigenous women as independent and strong individuals through feminist and historical perspectives. Readers will find that these women were far ahead of their time and held their own in many remarkable ways.
Karen Coody Cooper was born in 1946 in Oklahoma where her grandmother grew melons on a Cherokee allotment. After studying anthropology Cooper worked at museums in three states before employment at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Retired, she has written or co-authored half a dozen history books. She lives in Lake Worth Beach, Florida.
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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
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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