One of the things that I found relieving in this week of class was that women were actually seen as something more important. In the western world, women have always been seen as a lesser thing and as something unclean. I do not know why it is that the women are seen this way. But underneath Cherokee religious views, women are given power. The Cherokee gave women, because of the monthly cycle, power. They also understood that when a woman does start her period, it meant that she could give birth and could continue the tribe.
Also equally important, Native Americans allowed for cross gendering. This is something that i find interesting because some guys are just meant to some womanly things. I find nothing wrong with this and to find a society that embraced it and did not have an unclean stigma around it is very revealing about how much their religion and their society is somewhat more advanced than their counterparts in Europe.
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I thought that was neat as well. I don't want to view as advanced. It's almost like, at some point in history, when people were telling Europeans what they are or are not supposed to see as wrong, that oops, noone told North America. So, they never developed these notions that it was to be gay, or that sons were meant to grow up to be warriors. Also, like you said, that women didn't receive the ostracism or lower status that they would have in Europe. It reminds me of that part in 300 at the beginning, when the Iranian messenger is surprised when the Queen feels she is allowed to speak among men.
I left out some crucial words in that post, let me try that again:
I thought that was neat as well. I don't want to view Indians as advanced. It's almost like, at some point in history, when people were telling Europeans what they are or are not supposed to see as wrong, that oops, noone told North America. So, they never developed these notions that it was wrong to be gay, or that sons were meant to grow up to be warriors. Also, like you said, that women didn't receive the ostracism or lower status that they would have in Europe. It reminds me of that part in 300 at the beginning, when the Iranian messenger is surprised when the Queen feels she is allowed to speak among men.
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