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of or pertaining to residence with the wife's family or tribe; uxorilocal: matrilocal customs.
A newly married couple that go to live near or with the parents of the bride; the husband moving to the location of the bride's parents.
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∙ 9y agoWhen a married couple lives with or near the wives` mother and mothers kin.
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What words have the root word matri?
Matriarch, matrifocal, matrilocal, matrilineal.
What statements best describes matrilocal system?
a newly married couple is required to live near or with the parents of the groom
What statements best describes a matrilocal system?
A newly married couple is required to live near or with the parents of the bride.
Were the mohawk matrilocal or patrilocal?
Matriarchal, as the family line would follow the mother's side and would be the indicator of clan or kinship.
What was the role of haudenosaunee women?
Describe matrilineal descent.List some of the benefits of social organization based upon matrilineal descentDiscuss how matrilineal organization differs from a patrilineal organization.Define: matriarchy, patriarchy, matrilocal, patrilocal, clan, descent group, kinship, moiety, bilateral, kinship.Create a family genealogy.Compare differences between Haudenosaunee and US societies.Identify maternal ancestors in a kinship diagram.
How many wives did the Navajos have?
Polygamy was fairly common. Often they were sisters because traditional Navajo were matrilocal and matrilineal, which means a man goes and lives on his wife's family's land and that one belongs to your mother's clan. About 9% listed having multiple wives on the 1900 census but because it was illegal the number was probably higher. Most who had more than one wife had two or three. The Navajo Nation law currently outlaws polygamy.
Who controlled the family in the Navajo culture?
Traditionally, the Navajo are matrilineal and matrilocal. That means you belong to your mother's clan. You are said to be "born for" your father's clan. In older times your mother's brother was the one who would teach you and scold you. Matrilocal means a man moves to the wife's land and house when they are married. The property, except for personal property like clothes and horse belonged to the wife and her mother. If they separated he got nothing and would have to leave. That being said, "control" is an idea that was not valued in Navajo culture. It is very individualistic. Even mothers sometimes often don't tell a young child to stop doing something that might be dangerous. It is seen as an infringement on autonomy. In traditional Navajo creation stories the primal mistake that people make (unlike the garden of eden story) it that men and women argue over who it more important. The argument leads to separation and bad things come into the world as a result. The universe is seen a being made of dynamically balanced male and female forces. It one gets too strong or they fight it is seen as bad. Even one's own body has a male (left) and female side (right), colors and directions, rivers and mountains all have gender.
How were Navajo and Kwakiutl different?
They stole their candy
Who are black Cherokee Indians?
They have an Eastern Woodland culture, sharing many traits with Muscogee Creek and Iroquois peoples. They traditional farmed corn and other crops and lived in wattle-and-daub houses organized into semi-permanent villages. Their traditional government was led by a war chief or red chief in times of conflict and a peace chief or white chief in times of peace; however, traditional government only led by influence. Women led clans and families. Cherokee have traditional been matrilineal (tracing their bloodlines through their mother) and matrilocal (newlywed couples move to the wife's family's place).
What was the social structure of the Ojibwa?
The Iroquois (Haudenoshuanee) were 5-6 (depending on when) tribes that had been confederated in peace for 500 years when encountered by Europeans. Their bicameral legislature (two-house ruling body), one male and one female, would become a template for our own (Congress=Senate+House). Only men could be chieftains, and only women could elect chieftans. If a chief was doing something that concerned the women, they could get three warnings before being removed from power. First, an elder woman would come and try to talk sense with him. If this did not work, a woman of his generation would speak with him. If not, then a very young girl would ask him to change his ways, on behalf of the future. If the chief was still erratic and making bad choices, the women could remove him. The tribes were Matrilocal, meaning that men tended to be the ones to move upon marriage, and matrilineal: descent traced largely through the mother's line. "Social structure" is vague, was there something more direct? It was a matriarchy. The tribe was run by the female heads of families. The menfolk spent half the time off on long hunting trips. The older women ran the tribe.
