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Menstruation
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A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity.
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When a Lakota woman says: “I am on my moon,” it means that she has her period, and that has a special magic and mythical meaning for us. Being on our moon is surrounded by ancient but ever-strong beliefs, by legends and mythology, by customs going back to the dawn of time. It is the widespread belief, not only among us Sioux but among most Native American tribes, that a menstruating woman has a special, overwhelming power that nullifies the power of the men, even that of the medicine men.
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