{"product_id":"cherokee-women-in-charge-9781476688183","title":"Cherokee Women in Charge","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Cherokee Female Empowerment\u003cbr\u003e 1 Elements Empowering Cherokee Women\u003cbr\u003e 2 Terms of Endearment: Matriarchy, Matrilineal, Matrifocal\u003cbr\u003e 3 Under the Female Sun: Mythologies and Ethos\u003cbr\u003e 4 Female Sexuality in Cherokee Matrilineal Society\u003cbr\u003e 5 The Labor of Cherokee Women\u003cbr\u003e 6 Ghigooie and the Influence of Matrilineal Power\u003cbr\u003e 7 Visualizing Cherokee Women and Their Homes\u003cbr\u003e 8 A Bushel of Chestnuts for a Petticoat: Barter and Trade\u003cbr\u003e 9 Perspective: The Iroquois Great Law and Jigonsaseh\u003cbr\u003e10 Beloved War Women's Authority: Life or Death\u003cbr\u003e11 Ingenuity in Creative Arts: Weaving and More\u003cbr\u003e12 Creating Life: Pleasure and Pain\u003cbr\u003e13 Chiefs' Hospitality Provided by Women\u003cbr\u003e14 Women's Ceremonial Life: Festivals, Dance and Games\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Women of Other Matrilineal Cultures of Eastern North America\u003cbr\u003e15 Sixth through 16th Century: Yucatan, Hispaniola and Cofitachequi\u003cbr\u003e16 Seventeenth Century Women of Powhatan, Manhattan, Delaware and Pocasset\u003cbr\u003e17 Eighteenth Century \"Sinicker\" Queen, Creek Empress and Canadian Mohawk Lady\u003cbr\u003e18 Nineteenth Century Choctaw Little Blue Hen and Chickie and Chockie's Chickasaw Mother\u003cbr\u003e19 Two Twentieth Century Seminole Female Chiefs\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Enduring Strengths Continue in ­Post-Matrilineal Era\u003cbr\u003e20 Nineteenth Century Cherokee Cultural Evolution: Legislation, Missionaries, Patriliny\u003cbr\u003e21 Cherokee Women Enduring the Trail of Tears\u003cbr\u003e22 Enterprising Susan Coody and the California Gold Rush\u003cbr\u003e23 The Civil War's Cherokee Female Refugees\u003cbr\u003e24 Institutions in the Absence of Former Matrilineal Networks\u003cbr\u003e25 Suffrage: A U.S. Senator's Mother and a Tammany Hall Heiress\u003cbr\u003e26 Cherokee Women: Preservers of Heritage, History and Language\u003cbr\u003e27 Modern Era War Women: In the Line of Defense\u003cbr\u003e28 Sustaining Ancient Skills and Developing New Arts\u003cbr\u003e29 Great Depression Survivors: A Migrant Mother and a Space Engineer\u003cbr\u003e30 Twentieth Century Female Cherokee Chiefs: Wilma Mankiller and Joyce Dugan\u003cbr\u003e31 Excelling in a ­Post-Modern World: Poet Laureates, Prima Ballerinas and More\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: Be Indomitable: What Is Cultural? What Is Biological?\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040506118487,"sku":"9781476688183","price":34.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cherokee-women-in-charge-9781476688183","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}