I can't help you on "lore about the outsider woman." However,
< I've heard rape wasn't a concept for Amerinds.
If you mean that rape is not reported for any Native Americans, your
informant is mistaken. I recall from some anthropology course that
the Blackfeet held a public trial for an accused rapist. If he was
found guilty, he was turned over to the women and girls. They drove
him into a river or lake with sharp sticks, then stoned him until he
drowned. Check John C. Ewers, *The Blackfeet: Raiders on the North-
western Pains*. (Civilization of the American Indian, No. 49). Univ.
of Oklahoma Press, 1985 (originally published 1956).
< What about infanticide?
It is reported for, at least, the Walapai. Women had to transport
provisions, water, camp equipment, and young children during the
frequent migrations from one resource area (already depleted) to
another for hunting and gathering. Enemies, usually Yavapai, would
ambush migrating families and hunters. A woman who could not keep
up with the group might not survive. So the women sought to ease
the burden by killing unwanted children. See Henry P. Ewing, "The
Pai Tribes," edited by Robert C. Euler and Henry F. Dobyns,
*Ethnohistory*. vol. 7, No. 1, 1960, pp. 61-80. Infanticide is
discussed on pages 69-70 and 79, footnote 20.
Grosvenor Pollard
via Elizabeth B. Pollard
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