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The eastern woodland tribes were largely matrilineal. Possessions, homes and children belonged to the women. Depending upon the tribe, each clan may have had a clan mother, usually the eldest who dictated certain policies within the clan. Some also had the power to influence elections. Also they were of a minority had used women as healers in addition to their medicine people.

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