The social structure is based on matrilineal clans who control land and resources.

Within each of the six nations, people are divided into a number of matrilineal clans.

Instead individuals identify with their matrilineal clan (naa), a large group of people related by shared genealogy, history, and possessory rights.

The Morgan-Engels thesis that humanity's earliest domestic institution was not the family but the matrilineal clan soon became incorporated into communist orthodoxy.

The Jicarilla are traditionally matrilocal and are organized into matrilineal clans.

The fifth chapter, Clans, describes the social functions of matrilineal clans spread out over a number of villages.

Traditionally, Hopi are organized into matrilineal clans.

They were led by a matrilineal clan known as the Gelwaar.

This book argues that the first domestic institution in human history was not the family but the matrilineal clan.

The matrilineal clans (lo) own land, based on claims staked out in the early 18th century as the original Maroons fled southward to freedom.