May 12th, 2003, 08:52 PM
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Re: [OT] Another heated discussion about the Iraq siutation, war and politics.
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Originally posted by Wardad:
They were not a Matriarchal society, but Women did have influence.
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I believe the majority of northeastern native american cultures were matrilinial. And I believe in the agricultural Iroquois specifically the women owned the land and the men owned the seed. I assumed that's what you were referring to as it is consistantly brought up to me by local feminists. Knee-jerk reaction, sorry if I misunderstood you.
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Originally posted by Wardad:
I do not see how early USA could be fairly considered a democracy.
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I agree wholeheartedly, but if only the Iriquoi were close to democracy at the time, how does this become an statement to detract from the "democaries don't make war on each other" theory? |