Where I come from is like this

In this reading of the article “Where I come from is like this” by author Paula Gunn Allen, her article argues that Europeans misrepresented the important roles that women play in traditional American Indian societies.  Paula Gunn Allen the author of this article was born in Cubero, New Mexico, and she is half Sioux and Lebanese-American from her parents.  So she starts off the article with describing what women did in there Indian life styles compared of the life styles of the American woman.  Then she goes on to state that the reason that she knew that was the information and stories that were passed down orally from the mother.  After that she goes on to talk about her Christian schooling, then after that she talks about the different’s is the menstrual stage in the two life styles.  Then she talks about how she was told as a child that the Indians were savages.  So after reading “Where I come from is like this” by Paula Gunn Allen, I thought that her opinion about some of the idea’s in the book were a little basis.  BUt then I looked at the time that she was born which was in 1939, so taking that into consideration, I feel that she could make a good point because she grew up in a rough time in America.  But then she also wrote this book in the eighties, in which all most everyone had a different mind set back then, because they are all hippies. Then about all of the Indians being savages, I would say that you would have to take that text from the fifties when she at school or at catholic church, in the south.  Now about the part about the menstrual cycle, she says that the white americans take a rest because that they have cramps and stuff like that, and that the Indians would go swimming and go hiking.  But in todays world there is all of women’s that go do stuff even when they are on their cycle.  Over-all I feel that this paper by Paula Gunn Allen was pretty basis and they was some area’s in the paper where it seemed to repeat the same idea.  But over-all I didn’t really enjoy this paper, maybe this topic just isn’t my cup of tea.