Mother-Right: Equalitarian Societies

Gender equality in matrilineal and matrilocal cultures around the world, indigenous ways of life based on cooperation, not domination. Excerpt from Women's Power dvd by Max Dashu, Suppressed Histories Archives.

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Education

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• Women
• matrilineal
• equality
• social
• justice
• indigenous
• women's
• history
• mothers
• Social
• Science
• Mosuo
• Iroquois

[maxdashu]

I've been working on the academic women for decades now to pay attention to the Indigenous histories, heritages, and models of what free womanhood looks like. Class and racial caste are truly rifts that sink that cause. Divide and conquer has worked in a hundred ways, dividing women from women along ethnic lines, and people from people too.

[lmollot]

@maxdashu why dont academic women stop searching and start doing-have you thought of giving up status so you can join iroquois women s longhouses? if not-are women slaves supposed to continue feeding these academic slave-driving women-or can we simply take back our lands-and their excess money (we never voted for their salaries and jobs) solutions are simple-women farmers dont need to be studied-just joined

[maxdashu]

@lmollot What makes you think i'm an academic? i have no degrees and have always been a grassroots educator. What i do is for love, certainly not money. the positive feedback i get from ordinary women, including indigenous and African diaspora women, is my measure of the worth of what i'm doing. Knowledge about our roots is the birthright of all women. Without it we are cut off from our positive heritages, and we need those to overcome the cultures of dominion.

[lmollot]

DAWES ACT OF 1867 USA- NATIVE WOMEN SAID- "NOW that land collectives are illegal-this puts indian woman her children as dependent on the man as white women are"- academic feminists are only interested in their own careers and refuse to join together to buy land collectives- ego and greed staus unequal; classes between women censor the base of matriarchies- their land collectives- do like the umoja village for future generations thru land power

[maxdashu]

@lmollot Agreed. Academic Women's Studies, in general, has paid little attention to Indian women, sovereignty and rights struggles, or the cultural positives either. Explains why Andrea Smith had to fight for tenure. I've been pounding on their door for several decades about this. Land power: yes, but getting the money is hard.

[ukgreaterlondon]

ladies fight back ?

[lmollot]

@LordInit not all societies are vased on families units- the longhouses were based on grandmothers clan groups-including the sisters of the grandmothers-ones family did not exist-only the large clan of mothers-thats did away the need to invent "illegitimate"(not legal "illegal) children persecuted as criminals -b/c all children were born so all children have a mother and belong to her clan-very secure for children if a parent dies-child belongs/remains in clans cared by grandmothers-during war

[lmollot]

what will happen native women demand their lands back from educational & institutions who have stolen them-women land collectives which is the basis of their cultures -and what will happen when women-slaves refuse to grow food of academic&professionals-too overworked by those who study them for their own profit career courses-first lets free our slaves from starving by returning lands which is needed to overcome domination by landowners-will you & your friends join in womens farm collectives?

[lmollot]

@maxdashu thank you- my goal was not to blame any woman of searching rather than taking action -but rather to let those minority women (those living in excess) know that they cause suffering by denying equality for the majority of women who serve them-wouldnt it be great if we helped give power to the matriarchy clans by JOINING them?grow our own food-so that slaves dont have to do it for us,overwork,lose lands & child-would any women you know be willing to join the womens farm collectives soon?

[lmollot]

@maxdashu academic women refuse to leave their career status to JOIN in communal longhouse-native women clans-that stops equality among women& academic women keep many women slaves to grow their food/make their clothes etc etc etc-one university needs entire southern city of slaves&entire forests-please come and grow your OWN FOOD /CLOTHES so we women slaves can take back our communal lands stolen by institutions-so have time to care & teach our own children &grow only our food/clothes-equality