matrilineal kinship in a sentence
Examples
- In the matrilineal kinship system, children are considered born into their mother's clan, and descent is figured through the mother's line.
- "Hopocan " was born into the Wolf Clan of his mother, for the Lenape have a matrilineal kinship system of descent and inheritance.
- Many Native American tribes were organized around matrilineal kinship systems, in which children were born into the mother's clan and took status from her people.
- The people have a matrilineal kinship system, and children are considered to be born into the mother's clan, through which descent and inheritance passes.
- Like the other Iroquois nations and many other Native Americans, they long had a matrilineal kinship system, with inheritance and property passed through the maternal line.
- As the Cherokee have a matrilineal kinship system, he would have been considered born into his mother's clan and generally taken his status from her.
- Like other Algonquian peoples, the Chowanoke had a traditional matrilineal kinship system, in which children were considered born into the mother's family and clan.
- They did not understand that Native Americans maintained their identity by culture and had an ability to absorb people of other races or mixed race within matrilineal kinship systems.
- Of mixed parentage, Scots-Irish, and English, he was raised as a Creek by his mother, as the tribe had a matrilineal kinship system.
- It is one of the few indigenous cultures along the coast with a patrilineal rather than matrilineal kinship system, with inheritance and descent passed through the male line.