Cherokee society was matriarchal. The women owned the property and made decision in the governing of their society. Children raised in the mother’s house. The mother’s brothers were tasked with raising her boys in the skills of hunting and so forth. The girls learned from all the other women how to manage the family business. Family links through the mother’s side paramount. In a divorce the man’s belongs were just put outside the house and off he went. Read more here,
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