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culture. Consider, for example, the prominent ideology about Native American and Latino culture. Often as not this ideology is based more on misperception than it is on fact.
The first misperception is that Native American culture is one distinct culture and ditto for Latino culture. As McIntosh (2005) emphasizes, Native American cultures and the women
that they encompass are varied. So too are the cultural groups encompassed by the term ?gLatino?h. Never-the-less, certain general characteristics can be assigned to each of these
women. The cultural groups comprising Native American peoples and Latino peoples are strong cultural groups and the role that their women play in those groups is strong as well.
There are, in fact, many similarities between the roles women maintain in these cultures but there are also some distinctions. It might be contended, however, that the
roles and values that are shared by these women and, in fact, the differences that characterize them, are products of the environments in which these roles and values were spawned.
These roles have also evolved over time, however, and that evolution continues today. When we consider the contention presented above it is helpful to look at the traditional roots
of Native American and Latino cultures. Traditionally, the women of Native American cultures were very in tune with their respective environments. Although the males were responsible for hunting,
it was the women of most Native American cultures that provided most of their familys sustenance (Mann, 2006). They did so by foraging for wild plants that could provide
food and medicine. Consequently, many of them held relatively high societal positions among their people (Mann, 2006). Although the Europeans typically viewed the Native American woman as being
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