The Cherokee clans (ᏣᎳᎩ ᏓᏂᎳᏍᏓᏢᎢ) are traditional social organizations of Cherokee society. They are hereditary and matrilineal: children are considered to belong to the mother's clan.
Read more about Cherokee Clans: Customs and Functions of The Cherokee Clans, The Seven Clans, Historical Evolution of The Clan System in The 19th Century
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“Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skins and furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)