The Roles and Status of Men and Women in Nineteenth Century Omaha and Pawnee Societies: Postmodernist Uncertainties and Empirical Evidence

Wishart, David

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“…Others have argued that the appearance of male dominance is a misinterpretation based on observer bias among the predominantly male journalists recording native traditions from the perspective of their male-dominated cultures (Kehoe, 1983; Weist, 1980: 256–257; Wishart, 1995). In addition to the potential partiality of reporters, other scholars (e.g.…”

Section: Gender and Power On The Plainsmentioning

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“…Much research deals with the effects of colonialism on Native American life, and scholars have described substantial mechanisms involved in the transformations of the colonial period that facilitated such changes (e.g. Kehoe, 2006; Scheper-Hughes, 2001; Wishart, 1995). Many native communities adopted new corporate identities and social structures mimicking those of the Western nations with whom they were interacting, either as a strategy for negotiating new power structures or in compliance with the demands of Euro-American governments (e.g.…”

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Scenes of exclusion: Historical transformation and material limitations to Pawnee gender representation

Pugh

2013

Journal of Material Culture

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Major shifts in gender roles were among the transformations that came to American Indian cultures with colonialism and American domination. Although a great number of scholars have explored these changes, explanations have typically been sought in mimetic performances of Western gender relationships among native communities and hegemonic restructuring of attitudes by outside agents. Material objects, however, were perhaps as powerful as human agents in driving these ideological shifts because they are capable of representing layers of cultural values even when actors are absent. By examining material objects as active social actors during focused social interactions, this article describes one of the many avenues by which new Euro-American attitudes were slowly introduced to the rhythms of Pawnee life.

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Section: Gender and Power On The Plainsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Scenes of exclusion: Historical transformation and material limitations to Pawnee gender representation

Pugh

2013

Journal of Material Culture

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“…Despite the paucity of documentary evidence regarding women's lives, there has been increasing historical and anthropological attention paid to women and gender politics over the past two decades (Anderson, 1990;Claassen and Joyce, 1997;Demos, 1995;Ezzo, 1988Ezzo, , 1991Klein and Ackerman, 1995;Shoemaker, 1995b;Sleeper-Smith, 2001;Van Kirk, 1980;White, 1999;Wishart, 1995). Moreover, researchers have cogently argued that gender (along with class, race and ethnicity) structures the archaeological record and is an important analytical lens that can assist in understanding human social dynamics (Albers, 1989;Albers and Medicine, 1983;Caffrey, 2000;Claassen and Joyce, 1997;Hudecek-Cuffe, 1998;Nelson, 1997;Wright, 1996).…”

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Native American gender politics and material culture in seventeenth-century southeastern New England

Nassaney

2004

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Scholars have long recognized that European contact had a profound impact on native peoples throughout the Americas. However, subaltern men and women are no longer seen as passive victims in their interactions with the dominant culture but rather as active agents who made their own histories, even as they confronted colonialism on a daily basis. In southeastern New England, population decline and increased commodity exchange created new social opportunities for native men and women by the mid-seventeenth century. These demographic, economic and social conditions contributed to ongoing transformations in gender roles and responsibilities, though they were not experienced uniformly throughout the region. Building on limited and ambiguous documentary and oral accounts, I use archaeological evidence of pipes, pestles, pots, and peage (wampum) to examine gender politics in native New England after European contact.

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British Women Travellers and Constructions of Racial Difference Across the Nineteenth‐Century American West

Morin¹

1998

Trans Inst British Geog

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At a time coinciding historically with the height of the British Empire, the immigrants' rush to occupy American West lands and the wholesale removal of Native Americans onto reservations, encounters between Native peoples and British women travellers became emblematic of a whole range of socio-spatial relationships of domination, subordination and resistance. In this paper, I examine representations of western Native Americans in the travelogues of ten British women travellers to the late nineteenth-century American West, produced primarily during encounters at sites along the western rail lines. Constructions of racial and gender differences in the texts can be tied to British colonial discourses, as well as to the social relations inherent in the multiple contact zones within which the encounters took place. key words nineteenth-century American West British travel-writing Native Americans post-colonial studies railroad travel

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The Roles and Status of Men and Women in Nineteenth Century Omaha and Pawnee Societies: Postmodernist Uncertainties and Empirical Evidence

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Scenes of exclusion: Historical transformation and material limitations to Pawnee gender representation

Scenes of exclusion: Historical transformation and material limitations to Pawnee gender representation

Native American gender politics and material culture in seventeenth-century southeastern New England

British Women Travellers and Constructions of Racial Difference Across the Nineteenth‐Century American West

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