Elements empowering Cherokee women -- Terms of endearment : matriarchy, matrilineal, matrifocal -- Under the female sun : mythologies and ethos -- Female sexuality in Cherokee matrilineal society -- The labor of Cherokee women -- Ghigooie and the influence of matrilineal power -- Visualizing Cherokee women and their homes -- A bushel of chestnuts for a petticoat : barter and trade -- Perspective : the Iroquois Great Law and Jigonsaseh -- Beloved war women's authority : life or death -- Ingenuity in creative arts : weaving and more -- Creating life : pleasure and pain -- Chiefs' hospitality provided by women -- Women's ceremonial life : festivals, dance and games -- Sixth through 16th century : Yucatan, Hispaniola and Cofitachequi -- Seventeenth century women of Powhatan, Manhattan, Delaware and Pocasset -- Eighteenth century "sinicker" queen, Creek Empress and Canadian Mohawk lady -- Nineteenth century Choctaw Little Blue Hen and Chickie and Chockie's Chickasaw mother -- Two twentieth century seminole female chiefs -- Nineteenth century Cherokee cultural evolution : legislation, missionaries, patriliny -- Cherokee women enduring the Trail of Tears -- Enterprising Susan Coody and the California Gold Rush -- The Civil War's Cherokee female refugees -- Institutions in the absence of former matrilineal networks -- Suffrage : a U.S. Senator's mother and a Tammany Hall heiress -- Cherokee women : preservers of heritage, history and language -- Modern era war women : in the line of defense -- Sustaining ancient skills and developing new arts -- Great Depression survivors : a migrant mother and a space engineer -- Twentieth century female Cherokee chiefs : Wilma Mankiller and Joyce Dugan -- Excelling in a post-modern world : poet laureates, prima ballerinas and more.
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