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.

Chapter 1 of Strong Women Stories

 The story is the story of Gertie Mai Muise, who was from the Mi’kmaq people. The story or chapter talks about how her people have had to go through genocide, and how there is sexual violence and abuse against the women and the children. Personally i think anyone that is strong enough to live on past sexual violence is legit. Those people are the strongest because they have so much to deal with on a daily basis. These peoples lives are so horrible that so many of them commit suicide so they can pass on to what they consider to be a better life.

Dont let the sun Chapter 3 and 4

These chapter talk about Eva and her families journey. It tells of the struggles that Eva's mother had to go through showing me that she is a very strong woman. Her husband died and if that wasn't hard enough her daughter also died. Throughout both of these chapters there are examples of both Eva and her mother being strong women by carrying on with heir lives after s much tragedy.

Inuit society and Gender

The men and women had the same roles as they do now , the men were expected to go out and work and bring food home while the women were expected to take care of the home and the children. Everyone was okay with this system, of men working and women "cleaning". These wome also didn't have a say on when they would be getting married.

Chipas coffee

This film really shows the dedication that people will do to survive and support their families. Peple all over the world are taking advantage of what they are doing ut these people are pushing along. They had everyone in the family out there working hard to make enough money to support the family. In Amerikkka don't feel that children would work as hard as these people if they were in the same situation.

Andrea Smith Conquest

Smith's article discusses a lot about sexual volence and how it affects women of all race. She says one thing that catches my eye and that is when you hear genocide there is sexual violence. That is so strong because tey use the sexual violence to degrade the people and make them lose themselves. After an act of sexual violence is done then you feel empty and helpless. The sexual violence against native women was done as an act because the were native. Making there bodies mean nothing these men committed sexual violence.

Catching up: 5 sexes

IN america we all know how there is suppossed to be just 2 sexes male and female, but throughout the readings I realoze hat it hasnt always been like that. IN the past it didn't matter what you would classify yourself as. You could of been male, female, hermaphodite, now in native readings a berdache. There were options that allow you to be yourself. Also the resposibilities that came with you sex was different. Just because you were a woman didn't mean you cooked and cleaned. But nowadays if you are the man you are expected to work and provide

Chapter 1: Sexual Violence as Genocide

 This chapter is about colonization and colonizers use of sexual violence to aid the genocide that came along with the colonization. When you think about when Europeans came to America they obviously used sexual violence as a big part in taking the land and making it their home. I think this chapter helps aid the fact that when there is sexual violence involve in a thing such as genocide and colonization, it lowers what the people ,that are being taken advantage of, think of themselves. This chapter helps with the understanding how sexual violence is such a big emotional blow.

I am going to talk about my quotes and use them as my key points. The quote, "The racist belief was that white women needed to be protected from predatory black men, when in fact, black women needed protection from white men." Black men were lynched and victimized because of the belief that they were out to rape the white women. If a black man did have sex with a white women and someone found out, most likely to save her own ass she would cry rape. Now niggas was getting killed over the fact that white men were scared of black men raping their women when the fact of the matter is, was that the white men were the ones that were raping anyone. When Whites would lynch blacks they would a lot  the time mutilate the bodies of the black people being lynched including cutting off their genitals. Ida B. Wells did a study and said approximately 10000 people had been lynched. During the same time period no white person was lynched for raping or killing a black person. Now they cant say it didn't happen cause it did. The next quote is, "The ideology as native women's bodies as rapable is evident in the hundreds of missing indigenous women in Mexico and Canada." This quote says so much about how native women are viewed. It goes on to share facts like since 1993, over 500 women have been murdered in Juarez, Mexico. A majority of them were sexually mutilated and raped and tortured, having their nipples cut off. This shows that their bodies are only looked at for the thoughts of pleasure and in a sexual way. This act of sexual violence is so crude and crazy. This chapter showed me that violence comes in many ways and when it comes through sexual violence there is a lot of problems for those involved. The victims have to live with themselves after being taken to the lowest of lows. Thanks to this chapter I have an understanding of sexual violence.

Introduction: Andre Smith

The introduction does exactly what the title says it does. It introduces and talks about what each of the next chapters will be about. All the chapter have something to do with violence of some sort ranging from sexual violence to an anti violence strategy. It touches on a little from every chapter.

Some key points would have to be how she says that rape encompasses a wide range of strategies not designed to not only destroy peoples but to destroy their sense of being. That is a great point because once you are a victim of sexual violence you are changed. You become someone who you never was before. Also the fact that with genocide comes sexual violence, is great because thinking of all the genocides I can, I can remember that rape has almost always occurred.

"I argue that sexual violence is a tool by which certain peoples become marked as inherently 'rapable'." This quote carries so much because I have never thought of it is a way to mark someone as "rapable". I would some people are more vulnerable, but "rapable" is a new way of looking at it. I do agree that combined with sexual violence you can become a person maybe more susceptible to another act of violence.

Many tender Cries chapter 1

I am behind so yea. here is my blog that was suppossed to be done awhile ago. But the intro was about the fur trade industry began and was run in western canada. A big part of the intro was when it discussed what indiam women had to gain by marrying a fur trader. The would be treated better and as equals. Chapter one talks about how the indiam women eventually were not teated well. They were not doing feminine jobs and were doing jobs as if they were men. It also talks how they became more of a sex object rather than looked at like a women.

native american women class

i think i am doing this right not sure though. i will post this and see!