The Essence of Being Women and Native.
The Essence of Being Women and Native.
When human beings are uprooted from their ancestral lineage, their work, social relationships, marriage, parenting, and religion change. The breakage occurs not only at social and economic level, but internal as well, because of an immense effort made to overcome a strong internal crisis. In general native women used to enjoy great influence and respect from their community. The transformations native woman from Huron and Ojibwa experienced impacted them deeply, and their lives were drastically altered by the coming of European settlers with the new ways to be considered by white people, they be converted in secretive person for a lengthy time. Despite of this, as a consequence of this in recent years, native women raised their voices to be recognized as part of a tradition that deserved to be respected.
According to Castellano, the village of Huron native women are organized on a clan membership and it recognizes the social status from female who play a very important role into the community, such us parenting, collecting and preparing food, planting crops and selling it, also the participated in political activities, because men went away to hunt, fight or make another activities. Woman life was highly regarded for its capacity to give birth and help community survive without presence of men. On the other hand, the native Ojibwa people were hunter - gatherers, which meant that women also had an important role in the development of its economy; they were doing all the domestic work, weaving fishing nets, harvesting rice, making fur clothing. A significant issue is that Ojibwa Shaman was a highly regarded woman; because of community saw her as a warrior. Therefore, is not difficult to understand when Castellano said, that when European settlers introduced new standards of living to the communities, the greatest impact was on women; they were stripped out of their traditions and identity, which consequently led them
When human beings are uprooted from their ancestral lineage, their work, social relationships, marriage, parenting, and religion change. The breakage occurs not only at social and economic level, but internal as well, because of an immense effort made to overcome a strong internal crisis. In general native women used to enjoy great influence and respect from their community. The transformations native woman from Huron and Ojibwa experienced impacted them deeply, and their lives were drastically altered by the coming of European settlers with the new ways to be considered by white people, they be converted in secretive person for a lengthy time. Despite of this, as a consequence of this in recent years, native women raised their voices to be recognized as part of a tradition that deserved to be respected.
According to Castellano, the village of Huron native women are organized on a clan membership and it recognizes the social status from female who play a very important role into the community, such us parenting, collecting and preparing food, planting crops and selling it, also the participated in political activities, because men went away to hunt, fight or make another activities. Woman life was highly regarded for its capacity to give birth and help community survive without presence of men. On the other hand, the native Ojibwa people were hunter - gatherers, which meant that women also had an important role in the development of its economy; they were doing all the domestic work, weaving fishing nets, harvesting rice, making fur clothing. A significant issue is that Ojibwa Shaman was a highly regarded woman; because of community saw her as a warrior. Therefore, is not difficult to understand when Castellano said, that when European settlers introduced new standards of living to the communities, the greatest impact was on women; they were stripped out of their traditions and identity, which consequently led them