The division of labor between Indian men and women on the plains was
rigid: Braves hunted, fished, and made war and peace; the women did
virtually everything else.  So long as braves provided for their families,
they were free to do as they pleased.  Women raised the children,
prepared food, and when the time came to move the camp, it was the women
who dismantled the tipis (as shown here, in a Cheyenne camp) and
reassembled them in the new site.  During the latter part of the
nineteenth century, as more and more tribes moved onto reservations where
whites were trying to teach framing to the Plains Indians, many braves
rebelled against growing food, which they scorned as "women's work."