What are some other traditional gender teachings among the people of the Oceti Sakowin?
Are there any gender expectation differences between the traditions of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota people?
What types of gender role expectations exist in other coutures, and how do these expectations reflect specific social or environmental factors (such as the close living space of tipi living)?
How many of these traditional gender expectations continue today among the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota people?
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What gender expectations did you grow up with? How much do these continue with you today?
Are there ways that your current lifestyle, work, environment or social setting has reshaped some of the perspectives on gender roles that you grew up with?
What might be some of the positive, negative or neutral consequences of shifting gender role expectations in your ow experience?
How might your own cultural biases shape the way you view, understand or even judge the traditions of another person or group of people?
