... American cultures valued their women for their powerful role in the tribe. Women were the providers; gathering the food, trading with other tribes, making spiritual and political decisions, all while taking care of the entire family. Many tribes believed that strength was found in their animal spirit. Women ... an outsider because people thought "she was haywire, out of control. She messed with evil, laughed at the old woman's advice , and dressed like a man" (62). These women, despite their differences, were able to stay strong, and take care of themselves. Their ability to change into ...

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... thousand years or earlier. To reach mid-continent by that time, men must have crossed to Alaska no later than about 15000 years ago-about the time that last ice age was ending and the land bridge was being submerged. New discoveries and reassessments of old ones kept pushing the date of man's arrival in America further back in time. And every change ... were excavated in 1901. Adenans could equally well have been native Midwesterners who evolved from archaic foragers, starting their culture and farming. The Adenans" way of life depended primarily on what is sometimes called a harvesting ...

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