Cognitive thinking uses key attributes to recognize phenomena. For both the Plains Cree and traditional Western (Euro-American) societies, the capacity for maternity is the key attribute for defining woman. This metonymic usage has stereotyped and restricted women's roles, specifically by preventing women from attaining the most prestigious healers' roles. Euro-American societies permitted females to become medical doctors only after the metonymic conceptualization was challenged by the modern legal definition of person.
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Alice Β. Kehoe (1973) studied this question.
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