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Freedom is important to native American women’s history because it is something that was taken away from them when the europeans arrived.

It is something that was taken away from them. Women before colonization had many roles and were equal to men in their society. However, when the Europeans arrived,  this shifted and they were forced to fit into the role of the housewife. Because of the roles that they had, the Europeans believed that women were slaves to the men in their tribe. They also believed that they couldn't or shouldn't do their jobs because they believed that they were mens jobs although there was cultural reasoning behind them .

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Most tribes throughout North America had similar values and split of labors. Women's jobs were very important and respected throughout tribes, especially for their job of childbirth, for babies were very important to the natives shown through the rituals they did and the care they took of their bodies to ensure the babies stayed safe throughout birth and pregnancy. This job brought them a lot of power as well. They used their maternal authority to influence political decisions in and out of their own nations.
Depending on what kind of tribe a woman was in, hunting or farming, her duties were different. In farming villages where they derived most of their food from farming, women and men spread the work equally, and in other tribes, men did all the hunting while the women herded sheep and spun their wool into blankets and rugs.

In different tribes, women were responsible for sowing, cultivating, harvesting and storing crops such as corn, bean and squash. They also gathered berries, nuts, shellfish, and other wild foods while the men either chopped down wood or broke the soil to plant or harvest, showing they worked together to get their jobs done. The reason that women were the ones to plant the seeds was, since they bore children, the seeds they planted were thought to be even more fertile.

Women were in charge of trade as a lot of materials goods were passed through them, such as the agriculture, family's housing and the children, and since a lot of their work was community based and important to the community's welfare they held high political, social, and economic power.

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Women's work was something that the native american women chose to do because of their cultural and religious beliefs. One example is that the women were the ones to plant the seeds. The reason for this is since they bore children the seeds they planted were thought to be even more fertile. This also shows that the split of work between men and women were not forceful, but chosen and cultural as the women chose to do these labor jobs.

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Assimilation into the ideals of the europeans (Europeans arrived 1492 and onward)

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Assimilation into the ideals of the europeans (Europeans arrived 1492 and onward)

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When the europeans and the natives assimilated, the europeans would refuse to trade with the women and demanded to trade with native men although it was the woman's job to do the trading, they also pushed their patriarchal ideals through christianity and the values they brought with it as well as their push on the divide of labor by gender, pushing the now stereotypical roles of hunters and housewives.
1644, the Rev. John Megalopensis, minister at a Dutch Church in New Netherlands, stated that the europeans believed that the women in native american tribes were "slaves" to the men because they considered the labor that they did mens work, and wrong for women to do even though women’s roles reflected their own cultural emphases on reciprocity, balance, and autonomy. Again they began to push their ideals of a house wife onto the women, not allowing them to do their work. When the europeans had arrived to the americas it was the women who were promoting peace to them.

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When the europeans arrived they believed that some of the jobs women had should be mens jobs, and would not allow them to do them. One example of this is trade, most Native American tribes left the women in charge of the trading as all material goods passed through them and since most of their work was community based, they had good connections with others. The Europeans refused to trade with women and demanded that they trade with men. This shows the women's freedom being taken away as they no longer had even a choice in performing this job, the europeans would not trade with them and in that action took away their oppprtunity in working in those areas.

I believe this has a clear tie and similarity to our current age and era. Just like what happened in trading, a lot of men believe that women cannot perform certain jobs that they believe are for men. For example, many male owned buisnesses hire almost 100% males as they believe that women cannot do those jobs, like be a manager or any kind of job involving power or intellicgence, especially sciences, all around taking away the freedom of choice that modern age women should have in the area they want to work in .

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Patriachal influences from the europeans resulted in the role of women being put down and their power being taken away and given to the men.
The Europeans push on The Christian values of their gender division also led to women having to do the housework while the men labored as that was seen as mens work.
The refusal the europeans had to trading or doing deals with women led the men to have to take on these roles, against placing native American men and especially the Europeans in control of them, above women making them seem even more powerful.

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Analysis on lives of women after colonization

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Analysis on lives of women after colonization

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After colonization and the push of the europeans christian values and their push on unfair division of labor and men being put into positions, women were forced to drop their jobs as traders or any of their jobs that came with power and become housewives. This obviously shows their freedom being taken away as they are being forced to no longer do those jobs that they had done for 1000s of years before the europeans arrived, they were now being forced to work in their own homes, with no say in it and no chance of escape since the European values only allowed men to do other jobs.

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How the European values put in place back then are still visible in our society now. 

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How the European values put in place back then are still visible in our society now. 