Tolowa villages were organized around a headman and usually consisted of related men, in a patrilineal kinship system, where inheritance and status passed through the male line.
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With a patrilineal kinship system, traditional Menominee believe that children derive their social status from their fathers, and are born " into " their father's clan.
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The Angkola people practice patrilineal kinship, and the clans and surnames-Siregar, Dalimunthe, Harahap, Hasibuan, Rambe, Nasution, Daulay, Tanjung, Ritonga, Batubara and Hutasuhut, amongst others.
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If the Native Americans were a tribe with a patrilineal kinship system, they considered children born to a white father to be white, in a type of hypodescent classification, although the Native mother and tribe might care for them.
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The Omaha people, for instance, who had a patrilineal kinship system, classified all children with white fathers as " white ", and excluded them as members of the clans and tribe, unless one was formally adopted by a male member.
