Iroquoian Women : The Gantowisas (American Indian Studies V. 4)
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Iroquoian Women: The Gantowisas provides a thorough organized look at the social political economic and religious roles of women among the Iroquois explaining their fit with the larger culture. Gantowisas means more than simply woman gantowisas is woman acting in her official capacity as fire-keeping woman faith-keeping woman gift-giving woman; leader counselor judge; Mother of the People. This is the light in which the reader will find her in Iroquoian Women. Barbara Alice Mann draws upon worthy sources be they early or modern oral or written to present a Native American point of view that insists upon accuracy not only in raw reporting but also in analysis. Iroquoian Women is the first book-length study to regard Iroquoian women as central and indispensable to Iroquoian studies.
