Native American Clothing

Brushing-Against and Little-Squint-Eyes, two San Carlos Apache women. The role of Native American women in their tribal societies varied from tribe to tribe and in some cases was the opposite of the European culture that the settlers brought with them. For example, in the Iroquois Confederacy (People of the Longhouse), women were chiefs of their tribes. They appointed men to political positions and fired them if they failed to fulfill their duties. When Europeans first met them, they asked to sp