scholarly journals GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN’S POWER IN AMERICAN INDIAN TRADITIONAL CULTURE IN ZITKALA-SA'S SHORT STORIES

Humanus ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Olga Anneke Rorintulus

This article intends to reveal gender equality and women’s power in American Indian traditional culture before they were assimilated in white American society in the late nineteenth century as reflected in Zitkala-Sa’s short stories, Impressions of an Indian Childhood, The Soft Hearted Sioux and A Warrior Daughter. This study is a qualitative research that applies feminist literary approach which uses liberal feminist theory for the data analysis. This study shows that American Indian women enjoyed gender equality in traditional American Indian culture that had complementary gender relation. American Indian women had power and equal rights to be warriors and leaders in their society.Keywords: gender role, American Indian women, complimentary relation.KESETARAAN GENDER DAN KUASA PEREMPUAN DALAM BUDAYA TRADISIONAL INDIAN AMERIKA DALAM CERITA-CERITA PENDEK ZITKALA-SA AbstrakArtikel ini bertujuan untuk mengungkapkan kesetaraan gender dan kuasa perempuan Indian Amerika dalam budaya tradisional masyarakat Indian Amerika sebelum mereka mengalami program asimilasi yang bertujuan untuk menyatukan masyarakat Indian Amerika dengan masyarakat kulit putih di akhir abad ke-19 seperti yang terefleksi dalam cerita pendek Zitkala-Sa, Impressions of an Indian Childhood,The Soft Hearted Sioux  dan A Warrior Daughter. Artikel ini ditulis dengan mengunakan metode kualitatif dan menerapkan pendekatan kajian feminisme sastra dengan teori feminisme liberal. Hasil dari analisa ini menunjukkan bahwa perempuan Indian Amerika telah menikmati kesetaraan gender dalam budaya tradisional Indian Amerika yang memiliki relasi gender yang saling melengkapi dan mereka memiliki kuasa dan hak yang setara dengan laki laki Indian Amerika untuk menjadi prajurit dan pemimpin dalam masyarakat Indian Amerika.Kata kunci: peran gender, Perempuan Indian Amerika, relasi setara

1985 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Arnold Krupat ◽  
Gretchen M. Bataille ◽  
Kathleen Mullen Sands

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa K. Filippi ◽  
Florence Ndikum-Moffor ◽  
Stacy L. Braiuca ◽  
Tia Goodman ◽  
Tara L. Hammer ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qasim Shafiq ◽  
Dr. Ghulam Murtaza2 ◽  
Asma Haseeb Qazi

<p>This study new-historically explores the dialectics of time and space in American Indian women’s writings to explain American Indians’ awareness of and attachment to their surrounding nature and its expression in the contemporary American Indian tribal life. With delimited focus on Louise Erdrich’s <i>Tracks</i> (1988) and Leslie Marmon Silko’s <i>Ceremony </i>(1977), this article analyzes American Indian approach to time and space reflecting Natives’ awareness of their surrounding place. Mythical stories of oral tradition inscribed in <i>Tracks</i> and <i>Ceremony </i>recreate American Indian timeless and macrocosmic realities. American Indian women writers have been selected owing to the matriarchal nature of American Indian social order wherein women have been the conscious carriers of their timeless oral tradition. The two selected novels of different settings express the cultural range of American Indian tribal belt from Canadian border (<i>Tracks’ </i>setting) to Mexican border (<i>Ceremony’s </i>setting). This range is evidence of the synchronic and diachronic integrations and distinctions of American Indian past, present and future.</p>


Author(s):  
Teresa D. LaFromboise ◽  
Sandra Bennett Choney ◽  
Amy James ◽  
Paulette R. Running Wolf

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