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.