Gender Roles in Lakota Woman

It is clear that in both whitinized Lakota culture as with American culture gender roles are more similar and change along the same line as one matures when compared to traditional Lakota culture. Though at the time when this book took place the Women’s Liberation movement was in full swing though this movement did not have an important effect on Lakota culture because it just did not apply as Mary Crow Dog explained, “women’s lib was mainly a white, upper middle-class affair of little use to a reservation woman.” With this said traditional American gender roles were forced down upon whitinized Lakota people

so the some values coincided between both cultures. The idea of the macho male figure was clearly evident within both cultures. This idea of the man being all macho and in control of the relationship is clear in the traditional American gender role and is also clear in whitinized Lakota culture. This before mentioned social norm was something that was not as influential in traditional Lakota culture. “Once it had been the traditional role of an Indian man to take care and protect his family as well as old widows and young orphans. Now they say to our women; Lets you and me make a little warrior, after which they got lost making little warriors some where else.” It was also not uncommon for Sioux men to habitually beat their wives and it was also not uncommon for the wives not to leave their wife-beating husbands.

Also in the Lakota culture there has been traditional gender roles attributed towards daily activities and the division of Labor. As long as the Lakota people had been around the men and women of the tribe had traditional responsibilities. These responsibilities were not laid upon a gender throu

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