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AmericanKulak
2024 Apr 17, 12:11am
AmericanKulak
2024 Apr 17, 12:11am
The family structure of the Haudenosaunee (ED: Iroquois) is primarily based on the clan system. Families start with a female ancestor with all those dwelling in her long house linking back to her. Each family was called the long house family with the Clan Mother as the head. All female descendents including her sisters, her sisters’ daughters, and their daughters would live in the long house their entire lives bringing their husbands to live with them.
Sons stayed in the same house with her until they married and moved into their wife’s house, though they would still be members of their mother’s long house and their loyalty would always go there first. Children all lived in the long house where they were surrounded by their family and could be taught by their elders. Every child was welcomed and cared for by its mother, mother’s sisters and their husbands.
Children in the long house family were much closer to the women living in the long house who were more often around while the men were off hunting and trapping. Children called their mother and their mother’s sisters all “mother” leaving them with a great sense of security with so many mothers. Following this, Haudenosaunee children also had many “brothers” and “sisters.” They not only referred to their biological siblings as brothers and sisters, but also to their cousins as brothers and sisters.
Traditionally, women handled village concerns like property and crops while men took care of hunting, fishing and trade concerns. No member of a Haudenosaunee family was over looked with Elders holding respected positions within the communities as the wisdom keepers: the ones to impart traditions and to help raise the children.
https://www.haudenosauneeconfederacy.com/historical-life-as-a-haudenosaunee/family-structure/
Sons stayed in the same house with her until they married and moved into their wife’s house, though they would still be members of their mother’s long house and their loyalty would always go there first. Children all lived in the long house where they were surrounded by their family and could be taught by their elders. Every child was welcomed and cared for by its mother, mother’s sisters and their husbands.
Children in the long house family were much closer to the women living in the long house who were more often around while the men were off hunting and trapping. Children called their mother and their mother’s sisters all “mother” leaving them with a great sense of security with so many mothers. Following this, Haudenosaunee children also had many “brothers” and “sisters.” They not only referred to their biological siblings as brothers and sisters, but also to their cousins as brothers and sisters.
Traditionally, women handled village concerns like property and crops while men took care of hunting, fishing and trade concerns. No member of a Haudenosaunee family was over looked with Elders holding respected positions within the communities as the wisdom keepers: the ones to impart traditions and to help raise the children.
https://www.haudenosauneeconfederacy.com/historical-life-as-a-haudenosaunee/family-structure/
Term used by Bronze Age Pervert, an internet right-wing personality, to describe society that is gynocentric/matriarchal, lacking in privacy, personal liberty, in which one is constantly forced to share their living space with others, where hectoring (usually old) women enforce their social power to police men.
Longhouses were a type of communal dwelling, in which entire clans/tribes would live at once, sharing their living space 24/7, similarly to modern idea of "living in a pod", and were common type of living among primitive tribal societies, like some Native American tribes, many of which were matriarchal/semi-matriarchal societies ruled by oldest women.
-Our culture is a longhouse enforced by modern technology.
-You will not force me into a longhouse. I will not eat the bug, I will not live in the pod.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Longhouse