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Internet Exerices1. Read about the activities of a Canadian Inuit women's group at http://www.pauktuutit.on.ca/activities/main.html.
- Describe the activities in which these women are currently engaged.
- What sort of gender relations are reflected in these activities?
- How do these gender relations compare with the pre-European-contact relations described in your text?
- What colonial influences can you identify in the activities of this group?
2. Read the brief essay on the !Kung at http://www.dhushara.com/book/socio/nisa/nisa.htm and respond to the following:
- How do subsistence activities and gender roles relate to one another in !Kung society?
- Is !Kung society one in which there is gender equity? Use specific examples to support your position.
- A short interview with an Innu woman born in the 19th century can be found at http://www.innu.ca/mjpasteen.html. Read the interview (actually a translated transcription), and compare what the interview tells us about Innu women's lives with the lives of !Kung women.
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