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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