I think that individual efforts from people like this is what keeps culture alive. Even though it was cold and some people were far away, they still went to great lengths to enjoy and embrace their culture to keep it alive.

I still can't believe how this was happening in the 70s. This was just 50 years ago, and these native american women were getting their rights taken away from them downright.

This makes sense, because when COVID-19 was only in Wuhan, China, it was considered an epidemic, but it only stopped being an epidemic when it spread all over the world, and the people found it easy to blame China, hence it not being an epidemic anymore.

I do not understand the need to get into the natives' personal lives. It was almost as if they disliked these peoples but at the same time couldn't get enough of their personal lives.

I think that with men and women working together in roles it can be argued that things got done a lot faster and a lot more, with more efficency. It seems that the Cherokee had a great sense of harmony because of this.

I said this before but reading things like these always makes me think about the fact that communities where women were strong in these times existed and they were succesful, and no problems arised because of this, so then why was it such a problem in other communities?

This role reversal goes to show how there have been communities where women were given more roles and there have been no conflicts or problems with that.

I think that there is no reason as to why women should not be allowed to have the same roles as men. Women in history have been very unapreciated and underestimated on their abilities and what they can do.

Its interesting to see how these people considered each other family without actually sharing any blood in common. Their bonds were strengthened by things they had in common, and their clans were thought of to be their families.

It's so refreshing to see how it is very possible to have a successful community that is not patriarchal, where women can be held in high regard, can be respected, and can have many roles. The saddest thing is that the native communities have ben doing this for hundreds of years while the rest of the peoples lagged behind.

When I read about the importance of storytelling and how it this element has been used to pass down history for centuries, I can't help but think how easy it is to forget these things, and how easy it is to mess up a story and have it be completely transformed over generations and generations. I wonder if a lot of our history has been misinformed or not.

You can definitely tell that storytelling before was a lot more admired and seen as important in families and kinship than it is today.

Again, you can see here how native women, and other women in history have often been disregarded because of the male patriarchical mentality that was so widespread at the time.

It's interesting to note that Winslow's first instinct when hearing a gunshot was defend the kin, instead of anyone or anything else. This shows the innate bias these people had to protect their kin and how important their kin were to them

This is what the word feminism is supposed to stand for. Strong women speaking out about their experiences and understanding that something has to be done about it as well. As a male, I also feel that feminism also needs to include our part as well. We need to understand and accept that these things happen to women, and we need to be understanding and also try to help and create change in this broken world.

I hate how feminism has a bad connotation to it because of certain people who call themselves feminists and do not stay true to the actual meaning and goal of the word. These certain people are not indicative of every feminist, and people have to realize that feminism stands for something other than just "hating men."

I feel that a lot of time is wasted preparing for good grades when you can use that time to be more efficient catering to your individual needs as a scholar in order to learn whatever it is you need to learn. Those math grades will not help you in any way react to situations in the work place, interactions with other people, every skill set that is needed in an increasingly spontaneous world.

While all this is true, I also feel that it acts as a barrier that separates the better students from the ones that cannot perform. Of course, the fault in grades is that not every person can grow and learn their best way in the same environment and grading- every person has a different way of learning and some can proliferate in different learning environments. For me, I am not good when it comes to grades- I get nervous, I learn just for the grade and not for me, and this causes me to get worse grades than someone else. Here, the grading system has shown that this other person can use grades and can learn more efficiently and better than me, which comes back to what I was saying that it weeds out the better students; however, I will say that this is not what learning is about. For me to learn as efficiently as the other, I might need another system. Grades do not take into account that some students are slower, react differently under pressure, when school should ultimately teach to learn, not to see who is more efficient.