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Towards the end of this reading, Sara Winnemucca comments that "If women could go into your Congress I think justice would soon be done to the Indians." In what ways did her culture encourage this belief? What aspects of her own life supported these egalitarian views? My other question would be, are these views totally separate from the Euro-American belief that women were more spiritually and morally pure? --Rebecca W. | Towards the end of this reading, Sara Winnemucca comments that "If women could go into your Congress I think justice would soon be done to the Indians." In what ways did her culture encourage this belief? What aspects of her own life supported these egalitarian views? My other question would be, are these views totally separate from the Euro-American belief that women were more spiritually and morally pure? --Rebecca W. | ||
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| + | In response to Rebecca's first question, Winnemucca's culture viewed women as a more central part of the dynamics. They exercised greater political power and so Sara's comment would insinuate that she felt women could fix the ill Indian relations that existed. --Ellen S. | ||
== A Sioux Tale, “A Woman Kills Her Daughter” == | == A Sioux Tale, “A Woman Kills Her Daughter” == | ||
