Continuing “The Genocide of Matriarchal Societies”

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I wrote The Genocide of Matriarchal Societies in April of 2007, and there is some additional information I want to share along those general lines now. We’ll pick up where we left off and the answer to “Where Are All Your Women” will be made chillingly clear as to why they are “Missing In Action.” First however, we will reread the words of Archie Fire Lame Deer and relish in the scholarship of Barbara Alice Mann.

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Archie Fire Lame Deer had discovered enormous commonalties in terms of visual imagery between those in his father’s Yuwipi ceremonies and the visual imagery of the Black Madonna. Next, he learned that medicine men and Black Madonnas shared the same tragic fate.

..one last example of synchronicity is between the Lakota and a prehistoric cave in France. Archie Fire Lame tells briefly of his travels there with his daughter, while talking to a guide he described as a “spiritual man.”

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Fire Lame Deer & Richard Erdoes. “Gift Of Power.” pp. 277-278.

I found the image of a buffalo carved out of the living rock with water from a sacred spring flowing from its mouth. While I was contemplating this, I heard (his daughter) holler, “Daddy, quick, come here!” – There revealed a face exactly like the one my father always used during his Yuwipi ceremonies –

Then our guide said, “All this goes back thousands of years before Christianity.” – (He) kept the image of a dark-skinned prophetess that nowadays is called the “Black Madonna.” He told me, “They called her and her sisters witches and burned them at the stake.”

“I know all about this,” I said. “They called our medicine men witch doctors and shot them dead for the same reasons.” He went on, “This here has survived. Few have been inside this cave. You have been chosen.”

Next, Barbara Alice Mann has made such valuable contributions in terms of outlining and defining the “Western obliteration of women from the record, (p. 129)” that I don’t think it can be retold too many times.

Unlearning the Language of Conquest Scholars Expose Anti-Indianism in America. “Where Are Your Women?: Missing In Action,” by Barbara Alice Mann. p. 121, 122, 124.

…in the often fractious discussions of the extent of Native American contributions to modern Euro – American culture, the glaring omission of women continues almost utterly unaddressed…Worse, from the European perspective, was the level of political clout wielded by woodlands women. The sixteenth – century Spaniards in La Florida (the whole American southwest) were nonplussed by matrilineage and the cacicas (female chiefs) with whom they were forced to deal…Spanish frustration was not a little focused on Guale females, who undermined patriarchal tampering with Guale culture…In 1724, the Jesuit missionary Joseph Francois Lafitau recorded in astonishment that Haudenosaunee women were “the souls of the councils…” Judicial affairs so entirely belonged to women that any woodlands man who wished to become a jurist or a negotiator had first to have been “made a woman” in order to be qualified for the job…

Mann then proceeds to outline the methods of genocide and cultural genocide used to destroy “the level of political clout wielded by woodlands women.” She tells how the Spanish forced these women “to scalp their own sons, husbands, fathers, and brothers,” and then Mann outlines “pen – and – ink witchcraft.” “Pen – and – ink witchcraft” can be thought of as deliberately revising history. Mann continues to discuss how the “pen – and – ink witchcraft” was used in attempting to change the character and even the very gender of various entities in creation stories.

Mann ends with the following request, “We need the strong arms of our brothers reinforcing us in this effort.” While I’m not a scholar, this is the best I can do.  

3 Comments

  1. Our people had many  female Chiefs. When DeSoto came crusading through Sally SC, he knew there appeared a female Chief.
    My theory is when the sexist European men came here, they refused to talk to the females and only spoke to the men, whether they were Chiefs, fathers, uncles, brothers, etc…
    In today’s modern society we have Great Indigenous woman. Think of Wilma Mankiller, who revived her Nation. Then there is Mary Bravebird, Leonard Crowdog’s wife, who took part in destroying the decrepid BIA building and Wounded Knee. Then there’s LeNada Means, who took part in Alcatraz, just to name many things she did for Indian country.
    We, in America, are living in a Patriarchial, Protestant country and, as Winona LaDuke claims, our homes, our MOther is being destroyed because of their biblical bs manifest destiny. It’s all hypocracy. People from Indian Country discourage me as they say that their hands are tied because it takes lawyers to sue the perpetraters. In Canada, a class action suit was brought against the churches who had raped, beated, killed, etc… the children and they won and caused many of these perverted priests to go bankrupt.
    I would like to see another revolution like alcatraz, but considering the power of these half-cocked US congressmen and Senators and Leonard Peltier, what can be done. If we coild make coalitions with black folks and environmentalists, we may have a case.
    What do you think?
    I understand I’ve gone off the topic here on your wonderful topic of matriarchial societies. History shows thereis less war and more civilization building, plus more egalitarianism for both sexes with Matriarchial societies. Marsha Nightmare was GOOD for the feminist cause and still is as she is turning them on to goddess cultures, very much like indigenous earth, air, fire, water, spirit, and the love of nature. That gives them a recourse from that horrible Christianity which advocates rape and women as second-class. I take everything I read on Wichipedia and poop on it! If we as humans and all spieces are to live , we must return to Matriarchial societies or at the least, egalitarian societies, as the Irish had.  

    Rachel Ashton-Cherokee

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