By Lillian A. Ackerman
ISBN-10: 0806134852
ISBN-13: 9780806134857
ISBN-10: 0806180765
ISBN-13: 9780806180762
Some time past, many local American cultures have handled men and women as equals. In ''A precious Balance,'' Lillian A. Ackerman examines the stability of strength and accountability among women and men inside all the 11 Plateau Indian tribes who dwell this present day at the Colville Indian Reservation in north-central Washington nation.
Ackerman analyzes tribal cultures over 3 historic sessions lasting greater than a century--the conventional prior, the farming section whilst Indians have been compelled onto the reservation, and the twentieth-century commercial current. Ackerman examines gender equality by way of strength, authority, and autonomy in 4 social spheres: monetary, family, political, and non secular.
Although early explorers and anthropologists famous remoted cases of gender equality between Plateau Indians, ''A worthy Balance'' is the 1st book-length exam of a tradition that has practiced such equality from its early days of searching and collecting to the current day. Ackerman’s findings additionally relate to an exam of eu and American cultures, calling into query the present assumption that gender equality ceases to be attainable with the arrival of industrialization.
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All stored foods, including meat and fish, belonged to the women (Griswold 1954:117; Walters 1938:75, 91). Ray notes that among the Sanpoil “tribal organization in the ordinary sense was lacking entirely” (Ray 1939:6); but he later (1960:773) refers to groups throughout the Plateau as tribes rather than bands. Angel0 Anastasio ( I 972) also believes that Plateau polities displayed more complexity than that characteristic of simple band organization. His work describes political and economic interactions of a sophisticated type (1972:152-92).
The Nespelem were fortunate to be allowed to remain in their ancestral area around the town of Nespelem, Washington, but they were forced to share it with the Nez Perce band headed by the famous ChiefJoseph. His group was forced out of its homeland in Oregon, suffered detention in Oklahoma for several years, and was eventually placed on the Colville Reservation (Gidley 197940-42). Accompanying ChiefJoseph was a remnant of the Palus band who also settled on the Colville Reservation. At the present time, due to intermarriage and scattered employment opportunities, people do not necessarily live on their ancestral lands even when available.
Plateau women apparently took part in peacetime politics as well as war. ) . These earliest observations of Plateau women’s roles by Europeans and Eurehericans are unfortunately sparse. The early observers reported only what they saw, sometimes merely in passing, but they tell us that women had economic rights, had a great deal of domestic authority,were autonomous in their personal lives to a large extent, and could be shamans with extensive power. Their political power is also noted, though not in detail.
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