The Seneca Peoples and Their Relationships

According to morgan the Seneca tribe had within it actually eat distinct gens named after different animals which were defined based on a set of principles. according to mother right belong to the father's gens therefore only the offspring of the daughters in each generation remain within the kinship organization. Man and wife could not inherit from one another nor children from their father end quote so an additional principle was that members of the gens owed to each other such as general assistance protection and vengeance in the case of someone being killed.