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== Petitions of the Cherokee Women’s Council on Removal, 1817, 1818 == | == Petitions of the Cherokee Women’s Council on Removal, 1817, 1818 == | ||
The Cherokee women who composed this address spoke of the great injustice of being forced to move beyond the Mississippi. These women said that they have done what white Americans had wanted: many converted to Christianity, they farmed, and educated their children, sometimes sending them to missionary schools. However, I think these women’s action of addressing the male leaders about a political issue is more reminiscent of Native American women’s traditional gender roles before contact. -Allison Luthern | The Cherokee women who composed this address spoke of the great injustice of being forced to move beyond the Mississippi. These women said that they have done what white Americans had wanted: many converted to Christianity, they farmed, and educated their children, sometimes sending them to missionary schools. However, I think these women’s action of addressing the male leaders about a political issue is more reminiscent of Native American women’s traditional gender roles before contact. -Allison Luthern | ||
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| + | When reading this document I wondered who the intended audience of this petition was. The first petition mentions their "duty as mothers" in the first paragraph and the Cherokees children are mentioned constantly throughout both. Could they be appealing more towards women, who would better understand their feelings of raising children, than towards men? In the last paragraph of the second petition the council describes the assimilated white men who become their enemies partly by not caring about their wives and their children. -John Rowley | ||
== Sarah Winnemucca, “Life Among the Paiutes,” 1883 == | == Sarah Winnemucca, “Life Among the Paiutes,” 1883 == | ||
