INDIGST 1A03 Lecture 11: Indigenous Studies - Indigenous Women
22 Nov 2017
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Indigenous women: agriculture, haudenosaunee women had lots of say in property, haudenosaunee women could also vedo decisions on politics (war, etc. , distribution of food was controlled by women, establisher of all the norms, central to creation stories. Women in society: public domain (political life, labour, etc. ) Held for men: private domain (home life, child raising, etc. ) Settler perceptions of indigenous women: regarded as fetishized, eroticized, masculine, squaw . A lot of treaties were signed by men. Men are privileged in the indian act. Tracing disempowerment of indigenous women: treaties were negotiated w/ indigenous men, fur trade. When european women arrived, indigenous women were left behind b/c they didn"t fulfill the victorian era ideal of a women. Missionaries at this time were all men. Route to god was through a man. Indigenous women run sweat lodges, ceremonies, etc: residential schools, band council. Up to 1951, status women couldn"t vote on their band councils.
