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What is materilineal?

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∙ 16y ago

Updated: 12/15/2022

You might be referring to matrilineality, which is a system in which lineage is traced through the mother and maternal ancestors. (Wikipedia)

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What indan tribe was Pocahontas a princess of?

She was a member of the Mattaponi tribe being that her mother was a member of that tribe. They shared a neck of land between the modern day Mattaponi and Pamunkey rivers in Virginia with the Pamunkey tribe. They were then practically the same tribe. Both of these tribes and 30 others were at one time part of the Powhatan Paramountcy. Powhatan was the mamanatowick or overlord of the other chief's. Source: The true story of Pocahontas: the other side of history By Linwood Custalow, Angela L. Daniel http://books.google.com/books?id=b2A20GQSn-AC&dq A Guide to Writing about Virginia Indians and Virginia Indian History Approved by the Virginia Council on Indians - September 19, 2006 Last Updated June 2010

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