ARCTIC A Study of Matrilineal Descent from the Perspective

• Main Authors: Of The Tlingit Nexa’di Eagles, Chris Rabich Campbell
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1988
• Subjects: Key words; matrilineal descent; matriorganization; Athapaskans; Tlingit; NexA’di; Eagle; phratry/moiety; origins; Arctic; Canada; Stikine; tlingit; Tsimshian; Tsimshian*; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.540.2881; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic42-2-119.pdf

ABSTRACT. The Athapaskans of the boreal forest of northwestern Canada and Alaska and the Indians of the northern Northwest Coast shared a similar social organization. I t was based on the division of a group into moieties and/or phratries, tracing matrilineal descent, practicing exogamy, matrilocali...