Cherokee women in charge : female power and leadership in American Indian nations of eastern North America / Karen Coody Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, Karen Coody, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cherokee women--Social conditions.

Cherokee women.

Cherokee Indians--Social life and customs.

Cherokee Indians.

Matrilineal kinship--North America.

Matrilineal kinship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Female Power and Leadership in American Indian Nations of Eastern North America.

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, [2022]

Summary:

"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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Elements empowering Cherokee women

Terms of endearment : matriarchy, matrilineal, matrifocal

Under the female sun : mythologies and ethos

Female sexuality in Cherokee matrilineal society

The labor of Cherokee women

Ghigooie and the influence of matrilineal power

Visualizing Cherokee women and their homes

A bushel of chestnuts for a petticoat : barter and trade

Perspective : the Iroquois Great Law and Jigonsaseh

Beloved war women's authority : life or death

Ingenuity in creative arts : weaving and more

Creating life : pleasure and pain

Chiefs' hospitality provided by women

Women's ceremonial life : festivals, dance and games

Sixth through 16th century : Yucatan, Hispaniola and Cofitachequi

Seventeenth century women of Powhatan, Manhattan, Delaware and Pocasset

Eighteenth century "sinicker" queen, Creek Empress and Canadian Mohawk lady

Nineteenth century Choctaw Little Blue Hen and Chickie and Chockie's Chickasaw mother

Two twentieth century seminole female chiefs

Nineteenth century Cherokee cultural evolution : legislation, missionaries, patriliny

Cherokee women enduring the Trail of Tears

Enterprising Susan Coody and the California Gold Rush

The Civil War's Cherokee female refugees

Institutions in the absence of former matrilineal networks

Suffrage : a U.S. Senator's mother and a Tammany Hall heiress

Cherokee women : preservers of heritage, history and language

Modern era war women : in the line of defense

Sustaining ancient skills and developing new arts

Great Depression survivors : a migrant mother and a space engineer

Twentieth century female Cherokee chiefs : Wilma Mankiller and Joyce Dugan

Excelling in a post-modern world : poet laureates, prima ballerinas and more.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Cooper, Karen Coody Cherokee Women in Charge

ISBN:

9781476646381