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Perdue talks a lot about Cherokee women in this article.  However I feel that she romanticizes their role in society: talking about how gracious and noble they were to do most of the work.  I don't really agree with this.  I think the women farmed, did manual labor, made pottery, collected firewood and cared for children because they ''had'' to, not because they were saints.  They didn't object because they didn't know any different.  Also, other than mentioning that  men felt that farming was women's work, she didn't go in depth on how emasculated men were.  Did any one notice that she used the explorers' accounts for evidence?  She took them at face value, instead of explaining the common point of view of people who interacted with Native Americans in that time period.  I felt she also used those accounts to propagate the idea that the Cherokee were sexually promiscuous and licentious.  Who's standard is she using?  Thomas Jefferson believed the same things, as did most people in the early 18th Century.  But it's not what I expected from a modern historian.  She didn't question the reliability and accuracy of those sources, and I think she wrote this with rose colored glasses.--Amanda
 
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==Adams Article==
 
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