Women's Studies 3316F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Seneca People, Iroquois, Anishinaabe

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 3316F/G
• Professor: T B A

Document Summary

Tracking clans and nations that having some sort of documentation is an important thing. Brothers and sisters have the same clan and nation but cousins can be different from brothers and sisters. Almost a family tree with clans and nations - a way of keeping track. Kind of tell the society they grew up in - can tell where they might have moved. Means that no one has married within their own clan - get clan and nation from mother. Perfect because there are no crosses - nobody that is married a non-indigenous non haudenosaunee. How the perfect world would be - cause you follow your mother you get your clan and nation from your mother. Everything is very clear as a haudenosaunee because she knows the system - she knows that her son is seneca nation turtle. Even if the father is different - her son was raised as.