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  2. List of matrilineal or matrilocal societies - Wikipedia

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    Matrilocal Matrilineal: Gitxsan: North America: Canada: Matrilineal Greek: Europe: various islands Matrilocal John Hawkins: to the end of the 18th century AD [7] Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) North America: United States, Canada: Matrilocal Matrilineal Lewis Henry Morgan: 1901 Hopi: North America: United States: Matrilocal Matrilineal Barbara Freire ...

  3. Matrilocal residence - Wikipedia

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    Matrilocal residence is found most often in horticultural societies. [1] Examples of matrilocal societies include the people of Ngazidja in the Comoros, the Ancestral Puebloans of Chaco Canyon, the Nair community in Kerala in South India, the Moso of Yunnan and Sichuan in southwestern China, the Siraya of Taiwan, and the Minangkabau of western ...

  4. Matrilineality - Wikipedia

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    Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line. It may also correlate with a social system in which each person is identified with their matriline, their mother's lineage, and which can involve the inheritance of property and titles.

  5. List of civil societies in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] However, the Constitution of Nigeria as amended in 1999 permits freedom of assembly, associations and civil societies irrespective of the geopolitical zones, ethnic groups and languages. [3] Civil societies plays a key role in the nation's development and growth. [4] Below is a list of notable civil societies in Nigeria: Oodua Peoples ...

  6. List of ethnic groups in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    Nigeria has one official language which is English, as a result of the British colonial rule over the nation. Nevertheless, it is not spoken as a first language in the entire country because other languages have been around for over a thousand years making them the major languages in terms of numbers of native speakers.

  7. Category:Matriarchy - Wikipedia

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  8. List of confraternities in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    Nigeria [2] [7] [c] Deewell: Early 1990s Nigeria [2] [d] Dreaded Friend of Friends: Early 1990s Nigeria [2] Eagle Club: Early 1990s Nigeria [2] Eternal Fraternal Order of the Legion Consortium (aka Klan Konfraternity) KK 1983 University of Calabar: Calabar, Nigeria [3] [2] [9] Executioners: Early 1990s Nigeria [2] Fame: Early 1990s Nigeria [2 ...

  9. Efik people - Wikipedia

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    The Efik are an ethnic group located primarily in southern Nigeria, and western Cameroon. Within Nigeria, the Efik can be found in the present-day Cross River State and Akwa Ibom state. The Efik speak the Efik language which is a member of the Benue–Congo subfamily of the Niger-Congo language group. [5]