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homa in race and the cherokee nation sovereignty in the nineteenth century johnston points out that in the traditional cherokee culture men and women had different roles different ritual spaces and different ceremonies men were hunters and women were farmers who controlled the household both were responsible for putting food on the table in the winter when men traveled hundreds of miles to hunt bear deer turkey and other game women stayed at home they kept the fires burning in the winter houses made baskets pottery clothing and other things the family needed cared for the children and performed the chores for the household perhaps because women were so important in the family and in the economy they also had a voice in government perdue writes in tar heel junior historian a magazine published by north carolina museum of history spring 1984 the cherokees made decisions only after they discussed an issue for a long time and agreed on what they should do the council meetings at which decisions were made were open to everyone including women women participated actively sometimes they urged the men to go to war to avenge an earlier enemy attack at other times they advised peace occasionally women even fought in battles beside the men the cherokees called these women war women and all the people respected and honored them for their bravery johnston says that both men and women were sexually liberated and unions were typically based on mutual attraction the concept of being ashamed of one s body or physical desires was foreign to the cherokee mind set even though married men and women were expected to be faithful to one another adultery was not considered a grand crime and divorce based on loss of attraction was not uncommon sometimes they will live together till they have five or six children and then part as unconcernedly as if they had never known one another the men taking the male children and the women the female and so each marry with contrary parties cherokee couples going through divorce did not seem to experience the same level of emotional or financial trauma that is almost expected for modern day euro american couples dealing with separation and divorce according to johnston traditional cherokee singles mixers were charged with sexual energy although they were strictly regulated through ceremony the ritual dance performed publicly by young cherokees at such events culminated in moves that imitated a sexual act something that appalled the prudish white americans elvis was yet to be born and crowned a king in general physical relations between consenting adults were viewed as most natural and even divine and not as a source of shame fear or sin cherokees strictly obeyed individual taboos on food and sex but those taboos were specific to one s circumstances and usually temporary it is not at all surprising that the joyless rigid sex negative and guilt intensive view of life pitched to the cherokees by the european missionaries in the early 18th century was initially met with very little enthusiasm because the cherokees did not believe in the depravity of human nature the majority of the nation continued to resist this new view of themselves johnston writes in 1840 daniel butrick a missionary in the cherokee land wrote a letter complaining about the morals of the cherokee women one mrs safford it is said uses profane language one mrs glass it is said attends dances and the other mrs broken canoe i believe has never been at meeting here since she was baptized in may 1836 several years earlier butrick noted with horror that actors in a ball play a traditional cherokee game similar to lacrosse he witnessed were naked according to johnston butrick forbade any student in his school to go to a ball play or an all night dance he despaired however that the young women who have been educated at a mission schools and by great expense and labor taught to read and understand the bible are the first victims of these emissaries of darkness sophia sawyer a female christian missionary in the indian country reportedly chased a local woman into her chimney corner trying to convince her to send her child into the missionary school the native woman s response was that she would as soon see her child in hell as in the mission classroom sadly with the advent of native american boarding schools where savage born children were in the words of richard henry pratt trained in civilized language and habit a part of his notorious kill the indian save the man campaign the two became nearly equivalent in 1825 a hired white girl named mary had a criminal intercourse with a young cherokee robert sanders at carmel mission in georgia here is how moody hall a missionary at abcfm described the incident we burned their beds and cabin cherokee take such abominable crimes lightly johnston notes that this incident sheds light on the battle being waged over indians land mind and bodies for the cherokees becoming civilized increasingly came to mean nothing less than a radial alteration of gender roles the u s government and missionaries made a concerted effort to transform cherokee gender roles and attitudes towards sexuality and the body says johnston they sought to inculcate euro american values of true womanhood and confine cherokee women to the domestic sphere they met with resistance from the traditional cherokees but over the course of contact wealthier members of that society often of mixed ancestry readily accepted both christianity and the ideals of true womanhood this gender inequality intersected with class inequality because more affluent women were freed from most domestic labor by hired help of slaves and they had the means to acquire education and gentility by the end of the 18th century cherokee women no longer agreed among themselves what it meant to be a woman a wife what a sacred name what a responsible office wrote missionary elias boudinot buck watie in an article entitled who is a beautiful woman she must be an unspotted sanctuary to which wearied men flow from the crimes of the world and feel that no sin dare enter there a wife she must be the guardian angel of his footsteps on earth and guide him to heaven nothing in that description reminded the reader of the once powerful uninhibited breadwinning cherokee woman by mid 18th century many cherokees started to realize that their sovereignty and possibly their survival depended on being viewed as civilized being civilized meant wearing european clothes denouncing their centuries old religious practices and art converting to christianity and adopting a patriarchal agrarian way of life men would no longer hunt and women would no longer farm the civilization program the loss of hunting lands missionary efforts and slavery destabilized gender relations within the cherokee nation says johnston men s roles were more disrupted than women s because the men lost their ability to be hunters and warriors because farming was considered women s work the men would have had to radically alter their views of masculinity had they chosen to become farmers according to wilma dunaway professor of sociology at virginia polytechnic institute and state university and author of rethinking cherokee acculturation agrarian capitalism and women s resistance to cult of domesticity 1800 1838 shortly before removal the cherokees had learned new survival strategies in a world economy their agricultural production equaled or surpassed that of their white neighbors dunaway points out that historically agrarian capitalism has shifted control of household land and means of production to men has stimulated public policies that disempowered women and has fostered the cult of domesticity in order to justify the inequitable treatment of wives because the cherokee elite believed that tribal sovereignty depended on being recognized as civilized they also selectively accepted some aspects of patriarchal roles many of the legal changes within the cherokee nation in the early nineteenth century excluded women from the formal political process weakened the power of the clans and diminished women s autonomy johnston notes with the passage of cherokee constitution in 1827 cherokee women became politically disenfranchised and could no longer vote or hold public office the loss of formal political power was dramatic the cherokee constitution modeled after the u s constitution created a three branch government with a supreme court a legislature and a principle chief as executive the cherokees hoped that this demonstration of sovereignty would prevent their forced removal from their ancestors land by the 1800s the cherokees had lost their independence and had become dominated by white americans said johnston at this time white americans did not believe that it was proper for women to fight wars vote speak in public work outside the home or even control their own children the cherokees began to imitate whites and cherokee women lost much of their power and prestige in the 20th century they had to struggle along with other women to acquire many of the rights that cherokee women once freely enjoyed read more at http indiancountrytodaymedianetwork com 2011 01 10 power cherokee women 3767 share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on x opens in new window x like loading leave a comment posted in uncategorized posted by zeph july 22 2014 is porn sex who else thinks that porn is not sex but the avoidance of sex what you do when you want what sex gets you a baby a woman a sexual identity you want to go public with while finding the actual contact of sex itself unpleasant i think men like it because it appeals both to their desire to be in reproductive contact with women and their desire to run away in case a bigger male males comes along and punishes them for it the appeal may have it s roots in the conflict between opportunity and the danger that opportunity presents in the form of competition but it is definitely a learned behaviour a series of ritualised charades by which potential conflict and violence between men is diverted onto women i once heard a man say that he was not really that interested in female porn but that after he watched it he felt closer to all other men porn negates the significance of sex between female and male but it unites men which is exactly what it is designed to do share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on x opens in new window x like loading 8 comments posted in uncategorized posted by zeph july 15 2014 for emmelines birthday women s sunday by zeph on women s sunday seven processions began from various points in london and marched to hyde park to hear speeches given by the pankhurst s and other suffragettes more than 300 000 people gathered for the suffragette rally it was one of the largest single demonstrations ever up till that time on 21 june 1908 the wspu staged women s sunday in hyde park which was attended by over 500 000 specially chartered trains brought women from all over britain sunday was chosen so that as many working class women as possible could attend over 700 banners in purple white and green were carried in over seven processions to hyde park from votes for women by diane atkinson cambridge educational 1988 we can but offer a tribute of admiration to the wonderful skill in organisation displayed by those responsible for this remarkable demonstration and at the same time to the management by the police of this enormous crowd certainly mr asquith s advice is bearing fruit it would be idle to deny after the object lessons of june 13 and yesterday that a great many women are for the time being eagerly desirous of the fraanchise the times 22 june 1908 i am sure a great many people never realised until yesterday how young and dainty and elegant and charming most leaders of the movement are and how well they spoke with what free and graceful gestures never at a loss for a word or an apt reply to an interruption from the daily mail 25 june 1908 what a day was this sunday clear radiant rilled with golden sunshine as i advanced leading with the venerable mrs wolstenholme elmy the first of the seven processions it seemed to me that all london had turned out to witness our demonstration and a goodly part of london followed the processions when i mounted my platform in hyde park and surveyed the mighty throngs that waited there and the endless crowds that were still pouring into the park from all directions i was filled with amazement not unmixed with awe never had i imagined that so many people could be gathered together to share in a political demonstration it was a gay and beautiful as well as an awe inspiring spectacle for the white gowns and flower trimmed hats of the women against the background of ancient trees gave the park the appearance of a vast garden in full bloom the bugles sounded and the speakers at each of the twenty platforms began their addresses we felt that we had answered the challenge in mr gladstone s declaration that power belongs to the masses and that through this power the government could be influenced so it was with real hope that we despatched a copy of the resolution to the prime minister asking him what answer the government would make to that unparallelled gathering of men and women emmeline pankhurst s autobiography my own story 1914 emmeline pankhurst http radicalhubarchives wordpress com 2012 01 11 womens sunday more 6633 share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on x opens in new window x like loading leave a comment posted in uncategorized posted by zeph july 10 2014 silence share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on x opens in new window x like loading leave a comment posted in uncategorized posted by zeph july 5 2014 remembering the war on women most of the women i have known have died as casualties of war the same long unending war that their grandmothers died in true one or two have gone naturally of side issues or have had the privilege of succumbing to time but most died in the greatest of all wars the war that in true orwellian tradition we call peace there is an eerie tenderness in the way we nurse the evidence after the fact the way we smooth it s surfaces arrange it s sentences to read just right every cosmetic device is employed to cover the truth of our lives and deaths the resulting visage airbrushed ghastly and paper thin we call history it bears little resemblance to who we actually were or are and we seem to prefer it that way i have lived in this orwellian peace and it is a desolate place no one speaks of war there are no memorials no medals tears are only cried when in the safe proximity of some permissible tragedy or when attributable to unimportant things there are no 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