Explain what it means that the Muscogee society was ‘matriarchal’ and give an example

The Muscogee society is a Native American tribe found in the state of Oklahoma. This society is known as matriarchal because the descendants/children in this society are known to belong to the mother’s clan instead of the usual father’s clan in a patriarchal society.

The children given birth to in this clan usually claim the place/country of origin of their mother. The sharing of inheritance also happens between the females in this society.

the punishment for breaking the law would depend on the conditions or the seriousness of the law being broken, if he or she breaks the law while doing some great discovery or invention then it would classify as a scientific fraud. there are other words to describe the crime but scientific fraud would be the harshest one.

disease was the number one killer of native peoples. they had had little exposure to the diseases of europe. this led to some villages being almost completely wiped out and some tribes destroyed.