Women among the Hidatsa
Euro American explorers, Lewis and Clark included, tended to take ample note of how hard Indian women worked while overlooking the power they wielded. The Hidatsa, for example, was a matrilineal society in which women owned the earth lodges and gardens — this at a time when maried European women could not own property in their own name — and men moved into their mother-in-law's lodges when they were married.