Books+ Search Results
Cherokee women in charge : female power and leadership in American Indian nations of eastern North America
Author
Title
Cherokee women in charge : female power and leadership in American Indian nations of eastern North America / Karen Coody Cooper.
ISBN
9781476688183
1476688184
9781476646381
Publication
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2022]
Physical Description
viii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 23, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Elements empowering Cherokee women
Terms of endearment : matriarchy, matrilineal, matrifocal
Under the female sun : mythologies and ethos
Female sexuality in Cherokee matrilineal society
The labor of Cherokee women
Ghigooie and the influence of matrilineal power
Visualizing Cherokee women and their homes
A bushel of chestnuts for a petticoat : barter and trade
Perspective : the Iroquois Great Law and Jigonsaseh
Beloved war women's authority : life or death
Ingenuity in creative arts : weaving and more
Creating life : pleasure and pain
Chiefs' hospitality provided by women
Women's ceremonial life : festivals, dance and games
Sixth through 16th century : Yucatan, Hispaniola and Cofitachequi
Seventeenth century women of Powhatan, Manhattan, Delaware and Pocasset
Eighteenth century "sinicker" queen, Creek Empress and Canadian Mohawk lady
Nineteenth century Choctaw Little Blue Hen and Chickie and Chockie's Chickasaw mother
Two twentieth century seminole female chiefs
Nineteenth century Cherokee cultural evolution : legislation, missionaries, patriliny
Cherokee women enduring the Trail of Tears
Enterprising Susan Coody and the California Gold Rush
The Civil War's Cherokee female refugees
Institutions in the absence of former matrilineal networks
Suffrage : a U.S. Senator's mother and a Tammany Hall heiress
Cherokee women : preservers of heritage, history and language
Modern era war women : in the line of defense
Sustaining ancient skills and developing new arts
Great Depression survivors : a migrant mother and a space engineer
Twentieth century female Cherokee chiefs : Wilma Mankiller and Joyce Dugan
Excelling in a post-modern world : poet laureates, prima ballerinas and more.
Subjects
Bookmark As
Citation
