About Quote by Gloria Steinem

We're a matrilineal society, as Pueblo women, and there are a lot of tribes across the country who are.

— Deb Haaland

“In the symbolic, economic, and familial spheres the Iroquois were matriarchal, that is, female dominated. Iroquoian women headed the family long-house, and much of…

— David E. Stannard

“The women tended the crops and took general charge of village affairs while the men were always hunting or fishing. And since they supplied…

— Howard Zinn

“The essence of the tribal lineage was the descent of property through the male line. But producing a male heir under medieval conditions of…

— Nicholas Wade

Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.

— Shulamith Firestone

There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.

— Julia Jones

“Hereditary leadership was unknown. Men became chiefs by their prowess in war; and because he must ever be generous, a chief was usually a…

— Frank Bird Linderman

Families were living separately from the fathers. And so although, according to African culture, men were the head of the household, the truth is…

— Trevor Noah

“Patriarchy has been the normal in almost all agricultural and industrial societies. ...If patriarchy in Afro-Asia resulted from some chance occurrence, why were the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.

— Anonymous

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us

— Dennis Banks

“Although the emotional and intellectual differences between the world’s peoples as individuals are slight enough, even a small shift in social behavior can generate…

— Nicholas Wade