Native American Women : princesses or slaves

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Because of stereotypes about native American Women, can it be said that they were totally enslaved by their husbands and male relatives or whether, they had any kind of autonomy, importance and influence within their tribe?

In order to try to answer this problem, we will look at the role of Native American women in the management of the home, and more broadly in the context of the family unit.

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[...] From then on, and as chief, Amerindian women had the role of protecting the tribe. Among the missions leading to the protection of the home and the tribe, women, especially the most important members of society at the time, provided strategic support for the construction and also for the preservation of shelters. Indeed, it is the woman, as leader, who is responsible for the construction of these shelters. Therefore, this mission imposes an obligation on women to have the necessary skills to build shelters and to do all the peripheral work: bring in the necessary materials; cut these materials in the right way, choose the shapes of the shelters according to usual customs, etc. [...]

[...] This clothing production made it possible to do several things: allow all members of the tribe, especially children, to have access to heating through warm clothes and therefore to be in good health. Moreover, these clothes represent a real part of the culture of the American natives of the time. From then on, women had real power within the tribe and marked society indelibly. C. The gathering of food and cooking Although women did not participate in hunting and gathering among the Amerindian tribes, they had an essential role in the running of the household and in allowing the gathering of food and cooking. [...]

[...] It is indeed within the framework of this concept that we try to question ourselves on the following reflection: Because of stereotypes about native American Women, can it be said that they were totally enslaved by their husbands and male relatives or whether, they had any kind of autonomy, importance and influence within their tribe? In order to answer this problem, we will first look at the role of Native American women in the management of the home, and more broadly in the context of the family unit. A second part will be devoted to the role of Native American women within the tribe, more particularly through their spiritual and political influence. [...]

[...] On the contrary, they occupied a very strategic role necessary for the survival of the tribe. In 1644, the Reverend John Megalopensis, who was then the minister of a Dutch church in New Holland, translated the position of American Indian women as the following quote: "forced to prepare the land, mow, plant and do everything; men only hunt, fish and go to war against their enemies . " . Yet, women are still today, in 2019, still subject to discrimination and differences and inequalities in the United States but indeed all over the world. [...]

[...] by the tribes of the American natives requires a more global understanding of gender equality. ii. Building shelters as a strategic governance This example of shelter construction makes it possible to understand another strategic subject: the place of women in the governance bodies of Amerindian societies. 
Indeed, he had a clear idea of the extent of the time: there was no State as such. Therefore, in order to understand how to organize the different power struggles between the political decision-makers of the tribe, understanding each other's missions seems to be able to formulate an adequate apprehension. [...]