Women

• Women ran the longhouses


• Women owned the blankets (skins), cooking utensils, farming tools, etc...


• Many responsiblities such as: having children to follow the future of the tribe


• In each of the longhouses there was mostly one clan, with the eldest and/or most respected women of the clan leading it as the Clan Mother


• Women chose which men should be speakers, and sometimes the respected women were the ones who spoke
• While the men were gone in war the women and children stayed back to put out fires
• Making baskets