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Turtle Island Multinational Characteristics[edit | edit source]
Gender[edit | edit source]
Matrilineal inheritance: P'urhepecha, Lakota,
Patrilineal inheritance:
Political-social status of women and men:
Sexual division of labor: Lakota: "The women were all busy cutting the meat into strips and hanging it on the racks to dry." ...Men hunt[Black Elk Speaks] P'urhepecha: women cook and take care of the house, men hunt
Attitudes towards women and men:
- "Among us there in the brush and out in the Hunkpapa camp a cry went up: “Take courage! Don’t be a woman! The helpless are out of breath!” I think this was when Gall⁶ stopped the Hunkpapas, who had been running away, and turned them back."....('Prove yourselves to be men!')..."They hurt and made sores, but if we knocked them off or cried Owh!, we would be called women." (Black Elk Speaks)
- Tariacuri quote: "Are these not the words of women?" ... (&: Those men who do not prove themselves as men in masculine pursuits are teased as being like women.)
Attitudes towards manly women:
Attitudes towards womenly men:
Attitudes towards two-spirit people:
Attitudes towards homosexuality:
Relationship to the Land[edit | edit source]
- Referring to aspects of the universe as "grandfathers" or "grandmothers". (P'urhepecha, Oglala Lakota)
Modes of Production[edit | edit source]
Original communism
Travelers vs. Villagers[edit | edit source]
- P'urhepecha = Mostly villagers with some "chichemeca" travelers
- Lakota: late 1800s travelers