Lakota Woman with regards to male and female relationships has two clearly distinctive parts. These two different parts are seemingly divided by age and maturity, as with mainstream American values, but if one looks a little closer this change of beliefs and values is in direct correlation with the knowledge of traditional Lakota ways. This change is only able to come about if the Lakota person is willing to break free from the American culture that was forced down upon them as children.
It is clear that in both whitinized Lakota culture as with American culture gender roles are more similar and change along the same line as one matures when compared to traditional Lakota culture. Though at the time when this book took place the Women's Liberation movement was in full swing though this movement did not have an important effect on Lakota culture because it just did not apply as Mary Crow Dog explained, "women's lib was mainly a white, upper middle-class affair of little use to a reservation woman." With this said traditional American gender roles were forced down upon whitinized Lakota people so the some values coincided between both cultures. The idea of the macho male figure was clearly evident within both cultures. This idea of the man being all macho and in control of the relationship is clear in the traditional American gender role and is also clear in whitinized Lakota culture. This before mentioned social norm was something that was not as influential in traditional Lakota culture. "Once it had been the traditional role of an Indian man to take care and protect his family as well as old widows and young orphans. Now they say to our women; Lets you and me make a little warrior, after which they got lost making little warriors some where else." It was also not uncommon for Sioux men to habitually beat their wives and it was also not uncommon for the wives not to leave their wife-beating husbands.
Lakota Woman By: josh The book "Lakota Woman," is an autobiography that depicts Mary Crow Dog and Indians" Lives. Because I only had a limited knowledge on Indians, the book was full of surprising incidents after incidents. Moreover, she starts out her story by describing how her Indian friend...
The Lakota people were originally a nomadic/warrior society. ... Just as a treaty is about to be signed, the Lakota find some of the large, and largely unaccounted for, Army of the West, had set up a couple forts in the Lakota's back yard. ... During Red Cloud's war, the Cavalry was forced out of Lakota territory, and the United States government agreed to sign a treaty banning any white people from entering the Lakota territory. ... Traditionalist Lakota continue to dispute the second treaty and are attacked by Custer and his regiment in an attempt to subdue the Lakota with blun...
We as human beings subconsciously place others in one of the two gender categories: woman or man. ... Society plays a big role on what is expected from each gender and in many cases they set very distinct standards for men and women. ... Little boys and girls are exposed from a very young age to the various roles of "man" and "woman.... " I come from a Hispanic background, where culture and religion play a major role in gender. ... Our Hispanic traditions for the female gender are very conservative, where the role of a woman is to get married, have children and raise them w...
In particular, Religion can serve to give guidelines for different gender roles in a community. While all religions are very different, they can be broken up into three categories: Those that encourage natural gender roles that stem from evolution, those that seek to control these natural gender roles, and those in between. Religions that appear to encourage the gender roles that have resulted from evolution tend to favor the male species. ... However, these types of gender roles lead to a very lopsided society in which men have all the power and women are subordinate. ... Another religion tha...
To identify how gender impacted Eyre and Copperfield, gender roles must be identified. ... Men were considered to be the opposite of everything a woman could be. ... A woman interests also had to be in their men, whether it is their business or hobbies, a woman had to be eager to hear about his life. The biggest pressure a woman faced was being pure and angelic (Agress 169). A man would only marry a woman if she were pure and dependent on him. ...
The change in Lakota culture during the nineteenth century is best time lined by stages in Sitting Bull's life. At the time of his birth, early in the century, the Lakota's had just become fully mounted on horses and began acquiring guns from tradesman. ... The discovery of gold in the 1870's doomed the Lakota fate. ... Finally the Lakotas were all either killed or moved to reservations and their old ways were gone, and reservation life was inevitable. ... At first the government tried to offer the Lakotas lands in areas of no use to them, but this made a split amongst the S...
In your journal, discuss differences between gender roles in the United States today and when your interviewees were 20. ... Reviewing each point in time, 1960, 1977 and 2001, it appears that changes in gender roles have evolved as the changes became more socially acceptable. ... Robbins 2 The gender roles in marriage have changed greatly since the 1960's also. ... Another interesting aspect in the view of gender roles in social situations is the view of sex outside of marriage. ... It is my opinion that the greatest change in gender roles today, are the opportunities available ...
Can traditional gender roles survive in the twenty- first century? ... What exactly are traditional gender roles? ... Beginning in the early 20th century, the woman's rights movement became a political force in this country and began to encroach on societal views on gender roles. ... What did this do to the traditional gender roles? ... However, no matter how close to parity the two genders come, traditional gender roles will always linger. ...
Lakota Woman focuses more on Native Americans plight as a whole. ... Benjamin Franklin's autobiography differs from Lakota Woman because of the audiences they are trying to attract. ... Lakota Woman wants her audience to see and understand how bad Native Americans are being treated. ... Lakota Woman makes her life reading seem, more like a story then it is an autobiography. ... (Lakota Woman, Pg 7)." ...