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What was the social structure of Northwest Coast Indian society?

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The Pacific Northwest Indian peoples often organized themselves into corporate “houses” of a few dozen to 100 or more related people who held in common the rights to particular resources. As with the “noble house” societies of medieval Japan and Europe, social stratification operated at every level of many Northwest Coast societies. Within a house group, each member had a social rank that was valued according to the individual’s degree of relatedness to a founding ancestor. These highly stratified societies also had three main divisions: chiefly elites, commoners, and slaves or war captives.

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