Hi Ray,
At 20:36 06/02/02 -0500, you wrote:
(REH)
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Bless you Ed,
This just shows that there are many stories. Men and women in the
Cherokee society have been equal since the beginnings. In our society it is
the woman who owns the property and the man who is the guest in her house.
Divorce means that the woman puts your shoes at the door. Our nephews to
the North, the Iroquois have a system where the leaders are chosen by the
Clan Mothers and can be removed by the Clan Mothers. I wonder if Keith
read my post about our governing structure.
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I'm afraid I missed it -- I must try to find it in my mailbox. The
Cherokees seem to be very sensible. I infer, however, that the Iroquois
Clan Mothers choose men as leaders. And in these situations they are still
quite capable of taking untoward decisions and acting badly -- as I
intimated in my original posting. Back to the Cherokees, they don't seem a
great deal different from our society. About 65% of the wealth is owned by
women, women take the decisions as whom to marry, women predominantly
decide on divorces, and women are the big swing vote at every General
Election which, more frequently than not, decides which party wins. I'm
careful about finance in my businesses by am slapdash with my personal
spending. My better-half thus takes all the domestic financial decisions
and has saved a great deal of money over the years that I'd have
undoubtedly wasted.
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The U.S. government system of
checks and balances are very much a part of most of the native structures
across America.
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I've heard of this before, but have never investigated this. However, it
seems eminently sensible. Your governmental system in America, besides
resting on a written Constitution (in contrast to the unwritten, malleable
one in England) is much superior to ours. It means that States can make
individual experiments on many issues, which we can't do over here.
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The one difference is in the importance of unanimous
consent. Everyone has to agree or it isn't done. That is not so strange
considering that there are various social lodges across the country that
have the same set up. They call the dissenting vote that stops the voting
a "blackball."
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M'mm . . . rather like the Quakers.
Ray Evans Harrell
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