Doing the Iroquois kinship I learned a lot about them that I didn’t know. When it comes to kinship the women in the Iroquois determine the kinship. When they get married the groom moves into the brides longhouse. The kids they have become part of her family or clan as they call it. Louis Morgan wrote a book called Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family.
Iroquois Kinship Organization Instructor Donna Hinsey December 19, 2011 Iroquois Kinship Organization Kinship is a connection by blood, marriage, or adoption. This is how each family is sorted out; the customs affect people’s behavior and people’s true behavior within parents and children. Iroquois kinship system is parental siblings of the same sex are blood relatives, parental siblings of different sex are aunt and uncle, mother’s sister is also called mother, father’s brother is also called father, mother’s brother is uncle, father’s sister is called aunt. Same sex parental children are siblings (parallel cousins), children of aunt and uncle are not siblings they are cousins (cross cousins). Iroquois marriage ego is encouraged to marry
In the film, Dadi is presented as the manager of the household because she is the one that assigns tasks to the women in the family. She is usually the one to settle disputes among her daughters and daughters-in-law and maintain harmony within her family. Dadi believed that women are meant to be submissive and work hard in the field and at home because that has always been the role for women in her generation. She also believes that women should serve the family by expanding it through child bearing. The women in Dadi’s family mostly dominate the agricultural process and distributions, and also care for the household.
The Mayans and Iroquois share several characteristics, yet all the while many of their other traits differ from one another. They each had different systems of leadership, for example. The Mayans were strongly Patriarchal, whereas the Iroquois were a matrilineal civilization. Their core specializations both included hunters, weavers, warriors, and chieftains. On another note, their homes were vastly different.
It also illuminates how the development of agriculture, private property, and patriarchy have negatively affected the living practices in many societies. The documentation of the Iroquois Indians further supports the idea of communal living and sexuality along with other claims made in Sex at Dawn. The characteristics and lifestyles of the Iroquois tribes show great similarity to that of our Bonobo ancestors described in Sex at Dawn. However, they differed from the modern patriarchal society in almost every way. Iroquois culture embodied a heightened communal ethic, which mirrors the egalitarian tendencies displayed by the Bonobos.
The power to determine membership or citizenship, 4. The power to regulate trade within its borders […] and between its members and those of other nations” (5). Since the arrival of Europeans, many of these sovereign rights of the tribes, rights that
If at any time this recognition of traditional marriages, under European Law, creates conflict to our traditional culture, then these conflicts must be resolved by a meeting of our elders.” At first look this law took me back to the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The marriage law pertaining to “skin groups” is so-called the ‘skin system’, a method of subdividing the society into named categories which are related to one another through the kinship system. According to the Aboriginal CLC (Central Land Council) the skin system is “a division into two groups: ‘sun side’ and ‘shade side’ exists across the region. Most language groups also use a section or subsection system with either four to eight ‘skin names’. An individual gains a ‘skin name’ upon birth based on the skin names of his or her parents, to indicate the section/subsection that he/she belongs to.” Aborigines Laws of Kinship 3 SECRET AND
The girls will be raised seclusion with the other women of the tribe and enjoy the liberties with them. She will learn from the women in her tent the necessary skills that will prepare her for her life as a wife and mother. Although her life is rarely public it is regarded as equal to the male members of the tribe. Honor comes from the women. This honor of the tribe is primary.
North America was originally the home to many Native peoples that strived to live through the seasons without technology or wealth. They depended on the environment, wildlife and cooperation as a tribe. The Indians travelled together in tribes and made a living by hunting, trapping, gathering and trading. Before the Europeans entered North America, the Indians traded with other tribes and used homemade tools from bones and rocks. Ramsay Cook’s article, “The Social and Economic Frontier in North America” provides evidence of the first relationships and trade between the Natives and the first Europeans to arrive in North America.
This ensures that the skills required to perform the responsibilities are passed on from one generation to the next. Marriage in the Btsisi society is the major factor that differentiates the Btsisi from other cultures. Because Btsisi have strict laws surrounding incest, often, the bride and groom come from different villages. The practice is called village exogamy. A newly married couple will at first live matrilocally (with the bride’s family) and then patrilocally (with the groom’s family).