Woman-The True Leader

Native  societies are traditionally matrilineal and matrilocal. Many Native American tribes have been matrilineal.

Matrilocal means that a married couple lived with or near the woman’s family, that women owned their homes and fields, and a child’s clan affiliation derived from the mother.

“Europeans were astonished to see that native women were the equals of men—politically, economically and theologically. “Women had autonomy and sexual freedom, could obtain divorce easily, rarely experienced rape or domestic violence, worked as producers/farmers, owned their own homes and fields, possessed a cosmology that contains female supernatural figures, and had significant political and economic power,”.

“Native women’s close association with nature, as mothers and producers, served as a basis of their power within the tribe, not as a basis of oppression. Their position as ‘the other’ led to gender equivalence, not hierarchy.”

“The U.S. government and missionaries made a concerted effort to transform native gender roles and attitudes towards sexuality and the body,” says Johnston. “They sought to inculcate Euro-American values of true womanhood and confine native women to the domestic sphere.

They met with resistance from the traditional natives, but, over the course of contact, wealthier members of that society, often of mixed ancestry, readily accepted both Christianity and the ideals of true womanhood.

This gender inequality intersected with class inequality because more affluent women were freed from most domestic labor by hired help of slaves, and they had the means to acquire education and gentility.

By the end of the 18th century, native women no longer agreed among themselves what it meant to be a woman.”

Our society is modeled after White Euro-American values. Maybe the matrilinear societies were set up for balance, for women to have power.

Maybe it was the white European society that came in and conquered that insisted on patriarchy.
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Cultural Perspective

Kay Givens McGowan writes, “The great Native American civilizations of the Southeast … including the Cherokee, Choc-taw, Chickasaw, Muscogee, and Seminole, Yamassee—were matriarchal societies. In them, women, as equals of the men, had power and influence.

All of this changed with the coming of the Europeans, who assumed that Native people lived as Europeans did, in patriarchal systems, in which elite men defined the “appropriate way” for women to behave.”

The Haudenosaunee Clan Mothers are an example of the powerful roles American Indian women held.

The Onondaga Nation website states that the Clan Mothers “work with chiefs in making decisions for the people.” They also have the duty to ensure their way of life continues.

The Tuscarora women in North Carolina are known for their strength and resiliency as described in the stories of how the women fought until their last breath during the Fort Neeherooka massacre where the monument stands today, hundreds of years later as a reminder. Our Tuscarora relatives in New York also exemplified this during the "Death March or Death Trail" when relocating to New York and our Tuscarora women who stayed and were fragmented, enslaved and in many cases sacrificed their identities in order to survive.

The traditional roles of women in American Indian cultures have never been uniform, varying over time and from culture to culture.

The coming of the Europeans and their eventual domination of the continent disrupted all aspects of Native societies, including the roles of American Indian women.

Today, women of the First Peoples of the U.S. and Canada are seeking to reclaim their traditional roles even as their nations seek to reclaim their heritage.
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The woman has been subjugated by design.  The Subjugation of the woman came into institutionalized social practice by Edicts and Bulls issued from the Roman Church.

Subjugation means to bring under the Yoke or into Subjection; to bring into bondage or complete subservient, submissive control. 

(Down the line in time, they burned the books of the ancient information regarding civilization for civilized people, and eventually, for a more closer radius, after the Re-Construction era, began educating us, and our children, thus the public educational system has greatly assisted in the now dumb-down education.

The Public School system was originated to watch children while parents worked in factories.  The purpose of it, from its onset was not conducive to a pristine education.

It was more like a baby-sitting service, and let’s face it, that is what it has come to now, however it becomes more and more difficult to manage a people, or even relate to a people who are lacking in the fundamentals which are supposed to be passed down from their Mother, while in the womb (the first school room), and during the most impressionable years. 

The modern natives have forgotten the principles of the most important factor, the raising of the children who are placed into society to govern themselves and society. 

That is the concept and purpose of government (govern-the-mental).  This is not to say that there ought not be institutions of learning,  of refinement of the mental faculties, and development of the being. 

The question to ask is who is governing your mental?, and the mental of your children?  .   

The Inquisitionists’ Pseudo-Religiously imposed unconsciousness of the Woman, is key to maintaining the subjugation of the Nation, and the denial of the  Nation’s  Nationality and Birthrights. 
Pseudo-religion is the suppression of Civilization and the propagation of idol-god worship, and the mental-suppression tactical usages of Fear, Guilt, and Superstition.

    This suppression continues due to the natives lack of knowledge of self.  As an example, by her not knowing that the true meaning of religion means “the study of the stars”, she continues to force herself and her children to practice pseudo-religion, which is designed to suppress civilization. 

If she were truly conscious she would not subject her children to false teachings that teach inferiority, she would be in tune with her nature, thus knowing that each energy (child) she brings into physical manifestation has a purpose, and she would never use terms such as a "generation gap", because she would know that what influences the child she brings in, is based on the cycles of energy at the time of conception and throughout the pregnancy and birth. 

She would know the child, and be able to bend their inclinations at a young age towards their purpose. 

Sometimes when one pays close attention, and listens carefully, a child will tell you who they are, and who  they are not.

Let us clear up some confusion regarding the Matriarch / Patriarch.

If anyone tells you that there exist, or will exist, a Matriarch and a Patriarch, clearly they don't know what a Matriarch is.   The Patriarch does not include the woman in her proper position. 

She is usually depicted as someone inferior, or insubordinate.  It was / is the inquisitionists intent to use mental warfare methodologies to separate and divide men against Women.  (see Willie Lynch)..   

Last word: think about your own mom, dad definitely is the enforcer usually with the last word but if you are willing to be intellectually honest with yourself you will realize that mom allows him to be the head.

My mom wore a shirt, "if mama ain't happy nobody is happy". I think that has some truth to it.

Respectfully, if it wasn't for mom, most households would unravel. To Deny the the importance and role of women is like taking a point blank shot at both feet then trying to run a race. Failing before you start.

Lovell Pierce Jr