Essay On Cherokee Women

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Cherokee Women were constructed through spiritual ceremonial practices, social/cultural beliefs, and subjective duties/responsibilities. Cherokee women regulate all the important duties, while men hold the image of doing everything. In other cultures the men are considered to be the universal image of being the head of the household, but with the Cherokee Indians the women endure more and have more cultural importance than the men. Before the twentieth century the Cherokee women had a lot of rights and voice in the Cherokee community until Europeans took over and the Cherokee women assimilated to European culture. Before the Europeans invaded the Natives lands the Cherokee women had to go through pressures of farming, cooking, cleaning, providing,…show more content…
According to the book Cherokee women even in the winter when their was not any agriculture chores to do women were required to “Keep the fires going in the winter houses, make baskets, pottery, clothing, and whatever else the family needed while the men were out hunting or at war” ( Theda Perdure). Cherokee women were the nurtures of the family and the providers while the men were out in the winter hunting the women were providing for the families and keeping everything in order. In the summer when it was in season to plant crops the men still did not step up and help out the women farmed, took care of the house, cleaned, cooked, and took care of the children. While the women were doing all of this in the summer the men would be out drinking and gambling being no help to their families while it is a requirement for the women to do all these things giving them more power and economic…show more content…
The Cherokee women would sometimes marry the European colonists that they came in contact with, but “Women stilled owned the houses that the extended family lived, and daughters inherited the property from their mothers as a precaution from Europeans colonists taking their land” (IndianCountryMediaNetwork). This precaution was taken to prevent “white” men from marrying them for profit, but the colonists if they left his Cherokee citizenship was revoked and there was even a fee if the husband left without good cause which is considered breach of
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