Ozaawindib’s world
| Autor: | Kingsbury, Jeremy |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| DOI: | 10.25820/etd.006643 |
| Popis: | Since the 1980s, scholars have reexamined fur trade documents, oral histories, and material culture to gain a better understanding of Ojibwe women’s roles in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, demonstrating that they were far from powerless victims of colonialism experiencing extreme declension (a significant decline in power and agency with interaction with the fur trade). However, scholars have missed explaining lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) positions within this era and failed to find records for the actions of Ojibwe women who did not marry colonizers. By examining Ozaawindib, a naagokwe or Two-Spirit person this dissertation re-examines and explains Anishinaabe culture to emphasize gender mobility and fluidity. The key components of an Ojibwe community were individual family households. Wiishkoobag, Ozaawindib’s father, was a war chief of the Pillager band of Ojibwe. Examining Wiishkoobag and the Pillagers sheds light on Ozaawindib’s life. As the child of a war chief, Ozaawindib participated in war parties and entered into marriages with strong military allies of her community and father. Outsiders said that Wiishkoobag tried to convince Ozaawindib to live as a man but was unable to do so. If Wiishkoobag indeed harassed his son for living as a woman, he would be the exception to the rule of Ozaawindib’s experience. Ozaawindib, as a naagokwe was accepted by her community. She engaged in marriages, home management roles, political negotiations and warfare. Anishinaabe people referred to Ozaawindib and other naagokwe as women in the historic literature. While Ozaawindib was an oddity to outsiders, her fellow Anishinaabeg embraced her as a woman. Ozaawindib lived as a woman, her peers called her a woman, and she thought of herself as a woman. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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