Chapter 3 Strong Women Stories

 The Metis Women Circle is the focal point of the chapter. There are 3 conditions that are required to be considered by the circle, ad that is mixed aboriginal ancestory, self declaration as Metis, and community acceptance.  the Metis women are out to help people understand their people. they are out to clarify their history especially in the great lakes region. These metis women are not documented and accepted as historical texts but they are out to right the wrong history.

Women and Change Chapter 3

This chapter talks about how these native women would have to travel back and forth across the border and that is very hard considering the border, and after September 11 these women have had trouble getting to and from work and taking care of the things that are neccessary for their homes such as shopping. the increased security holds things up and time becomes scarce witht hese women but they still continue to make it work day in and day out

Chapter 1 and 2: Women and Change

This chapter starts out talking about native womens struggles along the border of the US and Mexico. How they are on the daily struggle to deal with immagration from Mexico to the US. This chapter talks about the native women that live and work in Baja California. These women work tremendous work days and they still do there normal jobs within their houses and take care of their children daily. These women have loaded days and they still perform tasks that are neccessary to continue their living styles. These women have enough power over their own lives that they today control their own salaries, contract their own jobs, and work without a man looking over them. These women are the mold for native women and should be looked at as revolutionary. 

Chapter 8 Dissident Women

This chapter is about the EZLN and the women who are involved. These women are involved in many things like organizing events within the community. They were also involved in themexican army when tpeople were forced to flee san francisco. This made the womens talks more difficult because and made itself a resistance. They also fought for women to be able to choose their own husbands, and not be in prearranged marriages. The EZLN movement has been very great for these women because it has been able to change their lives significantly for the better ways. Although much has changed they still have things that they are fighting to overcome.

Strong Women Stories chapter 2

this chapter is about Laura Schwager whose father didn't speak of being native and her mother recognized being native. The story talks about her great grandmother who was a respectable native women who raised her 3 children and was an activist for native people. She was a native women that was looked up to. Laura story is still continuing and her father realizes and accepts that he is native and laura is still on a mission to go out and find who she really is and find her native side of herself.

Chapter 3, Every Day is a Good Day

We have a problem with labeling native cultures something they are not because we do not know about them . This chapter helps explain to me why those stereotypes exist. It continues to talk about Wilma Mankiller an dhow she grew up in very hard times. her and her family were relocated to San Francisco. She married their and had two kids who she wanted to help them grasp the native lifestyle. so she took them to Pomo Kashia Ranchero where she was happy and really liked the way her children were interacting. I think she made the right choice by taking her children so they could experience the native lifestyle.

E very Day is a good day chapters 1 and 2

it started out by talking about how the native women are not known about therefore they are misrepresented, but what is not known is that they are very important in their tribes. These natives are faced with the problem of being removed out of their land without wanting to leave. If this happens it will damage their culture and make it hard for them to continue certain traditions. I believe that they have the right to their land and no one should remove anyone of anything. these people are treating the land better than the people that will move in so let the Native people control that.