Growing Up Sexually

 


POWHATANS(North-American Natives)

 


More: Arapaho, Assiniboine, Athabascans, Blood/ Blackfoot, Cajuns, Cherokee, Chipewyans, Apache Chiricahua, Comanches, Crow, Dakota, Flathead, Gros Ventre, Hopi, Huron, Ingalik, Copper Inuit, Iñupiat, Iroquois, Kaska, Kiowa-Apache, Klamath, Kwakiutl, Lakota, Mohave, Navajo, Nootka, Ojibwa, Omaha, Point Barrow, Pomo, Qipi, Quinault, San Ildefonso, Shoshone, Shuswap, Sioux, Tinglit, Walapai,Yokuts, Zuñi

See also: North-America Non-Natives


 

 

A Powhatan girl becomes marriageable at puberty and the man has to persuade her into marriage by giving her presents of meat, fish and wild plant foods[1][134].

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

Janssen, D. F., Growing Up Sexually. VolumeI. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin: Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology

Last revised: Sept 2004

 



[1][134] Miller, R. R. (1985) Mexico: A History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press