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Hello, For those of you discussing menstruation exiles, I found it amazing the different takes on the subject between a male and female Native American perspectives. In Mountain Wolf Woman, the autobiography of a Winnebago woman, she describes it as a very serious and dangerous time. On her first menses she describes her three? day exile and fast. She is told she is unclean and will contaminate a man if she even looks at him. However, in her brother's autobiography Crashing Thunder, he describes sneaking up to the hut where the menstruating girls are, while trying not to get caught by the father. His description sounds more casual about the subject. J. Brian Wagaman 1999 Conference Program Chair, Mid-Atlantic American Culture/Popular Culture Association American Studies Penn State University, Capital College Voice Mail: (717)985-1418 E-mail: jbw110@psu.edu http://www.siue.edu/~rdonald/mapaca/mapaca.html Area Chair (The Sixties) National PCA/ACA
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