A Necessary Balance: Gender and Power among Indians of the Columbia Plateau (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)

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Many Native American cultures have long treated women and men as equals. In A Important Balance, Lillian A. Ackerman examines the balance of power and responsibility between women and men within each and every of the eleven Plateau Indian tribes who live lately at the Colville Indian Reservation in north-central Washington State.

Ackerman analyzes tribal cultures over three historical periods lasting more than a century–the traditional past, the farming phase when Indians were forced onto the reservation, and the twentieth century industrial present. Ackerman examines gender equality with regards to power, authority, and autonomy in four social spheres: economic, domestic, political, and non secular.

Although early explorers and anthropologists noted isolated instances of gender equality among Plateau Indians, A Important Balance is the first book-length examination of a culture that has practiced such equality from its early days of hunting and gathering to the current day. Ackerman’s findings also relate to an examination of European and American cultures, calling into question the current assumption that gender equality ceases to be imaginable with the advent of industrialization.

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