continue to encroach upon,
them. Their longhouses are still adorned with the totem symbols of the clan
mothers of the respective nations, and the men must still leave the longhouses
of their mothers and migrate to the longhouses of their wives after marriage. It
is a matrilineal society. It is this Haudenosaunee devotion to their gender roles
that prompted me to ruminate on the nature of gender roles in general and
chronicle how “traditional” gender roles among tribal peoples first developed,
and how…
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