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Shared responsibilities within a tribe were a necessity for survival and apparent in the roles that both men and women assumed. In leadership, many tribes from time to time had medicine women who, as mystics, were often considered more powerful than the other elders of the tribe. Tipis, and their contents, were often the property of women, who could throw out their husbands for a good cause! While the bounties of nature were generally plentiful, it still took the combined efforts of both a man and a woman to provide the essentials as well as the pleasures of everyday life.
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