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Many early Native American societies were matrilineal. What does matrilineal mean?

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Answer:

a persons lineage is his or her line of ancestors, so it means a persons lineage through the mothers line of ancestors.

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A person's lineage is his or her line of ancestors. So matrilineal means basically "through the mother's line"

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