The People of the Slayer

The fratry exists as a grouping of gens that you know operates at a level higher than the gens right so it's made up of several of them and we're going to quote engl's description of the fratry here at length. angles argues that all native americans in north America had at one point existed in gens based on the mother right but over time a change occurred where gens were based on the father right began to emerge. The Iroquois formally had special religious mysteries called medicine lodges by the white men among the cinnikas these mysteries were celebrated by two religious brotherhoods into which new members were admitted by formal initiation there was