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| Post #1 30 Nov 2008, 12:13 AM | Huntress |
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Look like Lakota, more Earth Mother view of life. One big winter camp, breaking up into smaller bands in the spring thru fall. Matriarchal, children are traced through the mothers. There’s one Head Matron in the winter camp and as many minor Matrons as small bands that break in the spring. When the Matrons die, a Daughter takes her place, in the case of no daughters, then sisters, nieces or female cousins are looked at for replacement. Women for the most part cook, clean hides, gather herbs and plants, and in the case of the band that stays at the Winter Camp during good weather, farm. Men generally hunt and make weapons. Both will fish. There are a handful of women who hunt instead of doing the woman stuff. And there’s even men who cook and do other womanly things. The Women make the decisions and can even divorce their mates by placing their things outside of their living dwelling. Men do not have the options of divorcing, but that doesn’t mean they can’t do something to cause their mate to want to divorce them. The female Head of the Family decides on marriages and other important Family decisions, while the Matrons of clan and Tribe make the major important decisions, i.e. where to hunt, farm and if a marriage is profitable to all involved, what to trade with outsiders, ect. |
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| Post #2 14 Dec 2008, 10:21 AM | Huntress |
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Humans are also the only peoples to have an Adulthood Ritual for their children. Adulthood is 16 years. Both youths must first go before the Medicine Woman and go through a Fasted Vision Quest. They must sit in a hut separate from the tribe and fast for three days. Then the Medicine Woman gives them a tea made of hallucinogenic herbs to drink. As they fall into a stupor, they will have a vision of what their place in the tribe is. Of course it’s in symbols and such, and nothing direct. Example: One destined to be a hunter, might see themselves as a forest creature being killed by a weapon. Example: One destined to tend to an animal type might see a certain herd type animal and milk, or cloth or meat. After their Fasted Vision Quest, each Candidate speaks privately with the Medicine Woman and explains the vision they had. The Medicine Woman then takes the Candidate before the Matron and tells both what the Candidate is destined for. The Matron then pairs the Candidate with one skilled in such. If there is none to teach, then the Candidate must learn by trial and error, or choose to travel to another Band to learn form one there who knows (if such exists). Once the Candidate completes their chosen profession for the first time, they are considered an adult. Example: First bow, first weaving, first kill, ect. Edited by Huntress, 14 Dec 2008, 01:55 PM.
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