The Role and Power of Women in Indian Society - Essay Example

The second article, “Writing and Art by North American Indian Women,” it is explained, with the advent of colonial powers, how Indian Society suffered and their traditions and social structure were adversely affected.
When Attakullakulla, Cherokee chief reached out to the whites to negotiate a treaty, his first question to the white delegation was, “Where are your women?”(Awiakta) Issues have changed much, and the advent of materialism has deteriorated the conditions of women in society in real terms. The author laments and asks “I turn to my own time (1983). I look at the Congress, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission . . . at the hierarchies of my church, my university, my city, my children’s school.

….Where are your women?”(Awiakta)
Even the U. S. Constitution does not include equal rights for women. Both articles throw light on gender equality, how women enjoyed great powers in the Indian Society, before the advent of colonial power,s and how the powers and status of women were on the wane gradually. A woman is an economic unit now, not the important social and spiritual entity that she was once upon a time.