Longhouse family
The most important family unit in Iroquoian societies, the longhouse family is an extended family headed by a matron that includes everyone born in her longhouse. Iroquois society is matrilocal, so boys born in one longhouse move to their wife's longhouse when they marry, but remain part of their mother's longhouse family all their lives. Daughters continue to live in their mother's longhouse when they marry, and their children belong to her longhouse family and inherit her clan.