User:Sharksarerad/Gender roles among the indigenous peoples of North America

Apache[edit]
Traditional Apache gender roles typically involve women gather vegetation such as fruits, roots, and seed. Women would often prepare the food. Men would use weapons and tools to hunt animals such as antelope or buffalos. It is expected that women do not participate in hunting, but her role as a mother is important. A puberty rite ceremony for young girls is an important event, here the girl accepts her role as a women, and is blessed with a long life and fertility. Apache people typically live in matrilocal households, where a married couple will live with the wife's family. extra

Through a puberty rite ceremony, a girl goes through a ritual that transfers her from a girl to a women. The ceremony is a major celebration for the tribe, the girl is blessed with good fortune, a long life, and fertility. It is a celebration of her transforming into a women, and accepting her role as one in the community, and later one as a mother.

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