Gender Roles In The Plains Indians

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The jobs/roles of the Plains Indians varied from gender to gender. The Plains Indians’ women would gather berries and work in the field. Sometimes the men would come out and help them, but usually it was only the women. They would help feed the village with their work in the fields. The women would also work in healing and take care of the religious items used in ceremonies. This meant that the women were held at a higher power than some women in America today. The women had all the same rights as the men in their village.The men would hunt, manufacture weapons, and harvest. They took the more dangerous jobs to ensure safety for their villages. This is shown by the Mississippi River and by the buffalo in the exhibit. The men also ran religious

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