Hi, this is Caleb.

And this is Andrew.

And welcome to our third episode of Aroquois History and Legends.

As always, we're going to be starting off with our segment, Questions and Corrections.

Okay, Caleb, our first question comes from Ivan and he wanted to

know how clan mothers got their position because we explained how seatems were replaced on the council

but how did a clan mother get her role that's a good question and it actually is good timing too

because this upcoming episode we're going to be talking a lot about the clan systems and clan mothers

again but uh if you read online this is upcoming episode we're going to be talking a lot about the clan systems and clan mothers again

but uh if you read online this can be deceiving but it says that it's a heredital position and

so a lot of us would think okay that means that it just passes down from mother to daughter right

not really because they could have but not necessarily because we're talking

about a clan's got to remember they look at the whole clan as being their family yeah so obviously

the next clan mother is going to come from their same clan so it comes from the family so in that

sense yes but ultimately how this would work is the

clan mother would be kind of the oldest, wisest, you know, a person that was the highest respected.

And when it came time for her to either decide to step down or if she passed away, it tended to go to her next oldest sister.

Yep.

And if she didn't have, you know, an older sister,

it would most likely go then to her oldest daughter.

But not always necessarily.

They could still choose on who they thought was the most qualified.

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