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Key books detailing the history of Jewish-Native relations in the United States include Jews Among the Indians: Tales of Adventure and Conflict in the Old West by M.L. Marks, Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination by Rachel Rubinstein, and The Jews’ Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America by David S. Koffman.
The Iroquois Confederacy or League, combining five to six Native American Haudenosaunee nations or tribes before the U.S. became a nation, operated by The Great Binding Law of Peace, a constitution by which women retained matrilineal-rights and participated in the League's political decision-making, including deciding whether to proceed to war ...
Native American woman at work. Life in society varies from tribe to tribe and region to region, but some general perspectives of women include that they "value being mothers and rearing healthy families; spiritually, they are considered to be extensions of the Spirit Mother and continuators of their people; socially, they serve as transmitters of cultural knowledge and caretakers of children ...
Typically, women gather vegetation such as fruits, roots, and seeds. Women often prepare the food. An Apache man would use weapons and tools to hunt animals such as buffalos. [3] It is not expected of women participate in hunting, [4] but their roles as mothers are important.
The Iroquois Confederacy or League, combining five to six Native American Haudenosaunee nations or tribes before the U.S. became a nation, operated by The Great Binding Law of Peace, a constitution by which women participated in the League's political decision-making, including deciding whether to proceed to war, [94] through what may have been ...
Across the entire United States, only 100 Jewish American professors were employed in 1930. High-end housing communities across the United States, including the social clubs, resorts, and hotels within them, adhered to pacts that prevented Jewish Americans from buying homes and sleeping in rooms in their communities.
The North American fur trade during the 16th century brought many European men, from France, Ireland, and Great Britain, who married Indigenous North American women. [118] In the areas where these peoples formed communities, and developed a unique, syncretic culture, their children became known as " Métis " or " Bois-Brûlés " by the French ...
Thousands of California Native Americans, including women and children, are documented to have been killed by non-Native Americans in this period. The dispossession and murder of California Native Americans was aided by institutions of the state of California, which encouraged indigenous peoples to be killed with impunity.