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Iroquoian Women: The Gantowisas - Delaney Hoffman, Elizabeth, and Nelson, Malcolm A, and Mann, Barbara Alice
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Iroquoian Women: The Gantowisas provides a thorough, organized look at the social, political, economic, and religious roles of women among the Iroquois, explaining their fit with the larger culture. Gantowisas means more than simply woman - gantowisas is woman acting in her official capacity as fire-keeping woman, faith-keeping woman, gift-giving woman; leader, counselor, judge; Mother of the People. This is the light in which the reader will find her in Iroquoian Women . Barbara Alice Mann draws upon worthy sources, ...

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Iroquoian Women: The Gantowisas 2006, Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

ISBN-13: 9780820441535

3rd Revised edition

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