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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 | 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 | ||
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| + | This petition reveals some interesting things about women in the early 1800s; more specifically, Indian women. These women were able to go before their chiefs or "government" to protest the U.S. government's taking of their land. The women made their case to the chiefs and elders of the tribe, evoking great emotion to argue their position. The way the women went to the chiefs, alone, shows that women's privileges within the tribe were either the same or had increased in some capacity from the 1600s. What is even more interesting is how the women were able to persuade the tribe to keep their land. It shows the distinctiveness between Indian women and white women. I feel that if a white women had to make a petition to their government, it would be overlooked. But here, within the tribe, the women proved themselves to have power and an opinion within the tribe. Maybe this petition could have been used as an example, to encourage white women to speak up and to encourage governments to be more encouraging of women's ideas and opinions. ----- Alex Mankarios | ||
== Sarah Winnemucca, “Life Among the Paiutes,” 1883 == | == Sarah Winnemucca, “Life Among the Paiutes,” 1883 == | ||
