Changing Ones: Chapter 4

In this chapter we were able to see how Indian women were part of the society in many different ways. One might have always been exposed to having learned that almost all native Indian women were those females that were as they called them "Indian princess" or those as the story of Pochantas. Those that were exposed to the white culture and left their own to join it. Yet that is only somewhat of what the Indian woman really was. At the beginning many European settlers saw these females as exotic sexual fantasies. Not only that but they also viewed these Indian warrior women as exotic and wild. One thing that these warrior women were was that they were strong independent females. They knew how to take care for themselves. They knew many survivor skills and were able to make it on their own with out a sexual partner. These females played the roles of both male and female. Some were even stronger than the men themselves. These warrior women would do many jobs that based on the European gender roles were not right. Some tasks that these women performed in were in leading a tribe, fighting, firing rifles, shooting bows and arrows. You name it these females were strong and did not need no help of any male. It came to be that these Indian female warriors was part of their own identity. All this bravery surprised many, specially the Europeans. The Europeans were never exposed to this role on behalf of the woman's part. They never married and had three or four wives. In the end these females were strong woman that were able to make it on their own with out the help of what is know today as the dominant privileged gender, the male.