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Carolyn Ross Johnston's previous publications include Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907; Sexual Power: Feminism and the Family in America; and My Father's War: Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II. Johnston teaches at Eckerd College in St. mostra altro Petersburg, Florida, where she is professor of history and American studies and the Elie Wiesel Professor of Humane Letters. mostra meno

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A well-written chronicle, from pre-contact to modern times, of how Cherokee women went from respected voices in the community to silence, and back again. Telling many stories again from another perspective (particularly Mooney and Lt. Timberlake, whose accounts look different when viewed through the lense of women's history), this book shows another side of the story. Our story.

Acceptance of the Gregorian system of time-measurement, which came with more quickly produced (manufactured) goods, led to rejection of a more feminine calendar, and thus eventually to acceptance of European religion (at the point of trader debt and guns, admittedly), loss of the Tsalagi language in favor of English, and a forced acceptance of the 'Civilizing' program: an attempt to erase the Cherokee way of thinking, respect for mothers and honored women, with the domestication of obedient ladies: a European way of thinking.

These essays show more than just how Cherokee women went from equality to inequality and back again. They show how the imposition of calendar, religion, language and 'civilization' led to the loss of a more open and flexible way of thinking.
Peace,
Shira (Destinie)
Universal Date (aka MEOW Community Cooperation Date):
Sunday, 24 September, 12014 H.E.
(Holocene/Human Era)
… (altro)
 
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FourFreedoms | 1 altra recensione | May 17, 2019 |
A well-written chronicle, from pre-contact to modern times, of how Cherokee women went from respected voices in the community to silence, and back again. Telling many stories again from another perspective (particularly Mooney and Lt. Timberlake, whose accounts look different when viewed through the lense of women's history), this book shows another side of the story. Our story.

Acceptance of the Gregorian system of time-measurement, which came with more quickly produced (manufactured) goods, led to rejection of a more feminine calendar, and thus eventually to acceptance of European religion (at the point of trader debt and guns, admittedly), loss of the Tsalagi language in favor of English, and a forced acceptance of the 'Civilizing' program: an attempt to erase the Cherokee way of thinking, respect for mothers and honored women, with the domestication of obedient ladies: a European way of thinking.

These essays show more than just how Cherokee women went from equality to inequality and back again. They show how the imposition of calendar, religion, language and 'civilization' led to the loss of a more open and flexible way of thinking.
Peace,
Shira (Destinie)
Universal Date (aka MEOW Community Cooperation Date):
Sunday, 24 September, 12014 H.E.
(Holocene/Human Era)
… (altro)
 
Segnalato
ShiraDest | 1 altra recensione | Mar 6, 2019 |

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