Character Question: female characters in a male-dominated world

[Louanne Learning]

I've already started looking into native American tribes

A great start to understanding traditional Native culture is to read a book first published in the early 19th century by a missionary - John Heckewelder - who lived among the tribes of Pennsylvania - which you can read for free on Gutenberg -

HISTORY, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF The Indian Nations WHO ONCE INHABITED PENNSYLVANIA AND THE NEIGHBOURING STATES.

 

[DLC]

Don't tell that to any Scottish person

That would be her parents. But anyhow...

We must remember that winners wrote the history books, and they tended to be male. Kinda always, actually. Boys being boys, they're wont to omit how they only conquered X due to their wives and mothers packing them a nice lunch and making sure they had a clean breech cloth and a spare toga. And various other things that kept everyone from killing each other before they even left port. Not all heroes wield swords.