Like nearly all Native Americans, they developed a matrilineal society, with hereditary power passed through the mother.

They developed a matrilineal society, with hereditary power passed through the mother.

As a matrilineal society, property and land rights are inherited through the mother.

Palau is a matrilineal society where women held power and heir to the throne.

Women usually inherit status and property directly from their mothers in matrilineal societies.

There may be other reasons that women in the matrilineal society do not outperform men on spatial reasoning.

Other matrilineal societies do not approach equality of the sexes.

For instance, the Hopi are a matrilineal society, and children belong to the clan of the mother, not the father.

This area of Africa still remains, in many areas, a matrilineal society.

The Garos are one of the few remaining matrilineal societies in the world.