Answer:
Native Americans
Step-by-step explanation:
To European eyes, the structure of Native American society lacked the
complexity of their own community. Yet, their own drawings of the Powhatan
people reveal that the tribes’ division of labor and gender roles were actually very advanced, especially where the status of women was concerned. Whereas married women in Europe held few rights to their property, family wealth, or even children, women of the Eastern Woodland tribes had much greater power and autonomy over their produce, conditions of labor, and property. Native women even served as representatives in the tribal councils, and held rights over the land they worked. This lesson demonstrates that although “women’s work” was belittled in European cultures, Native women’s daily contributions were recognized by Native men and the tribe as a whole as vital to the prosperity of the community and worthy of respect. By comparing the condition of women in America and other lands (including colonists), students will discover that women’s status in their community was directly related to the social hierarchy, religious culture, and natural environment in which they lived, and that the combination of those ingredients varied wildly across the continents.