The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.
My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies.
Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them.
I think it's time that we have a women's show about the West. The concentration has been on the men and the Indians.
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and in part because of trepidation about marriage, which was then a very confining institution, there was a big population of women - mostly middle-class white women on the East Coast - who didn't marry.
America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.
The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers.
There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.