text: You are incorrect. Most tribal societies were far more egalitarian than we are. In the lower 48, numerous Native American tribes were matrilineal and matriarchal, including the Iroquois who famously influenced many of the democratic ideals,  freedoms and processes delineated in the Constitution. Caucus is a Native American word and process
  
  People have a tendency to pick a single negative fact about tribal societies and apply it to the entire culture out of context, and doing so presents a very false understanding of the subject. But a number of areas of scholarship, obviously anthropology but also other fields like psychology and history, conclude that far greater egalitarianism existed among tribal people.
  
  Many of the beliefs about tribal people held by this culture are pure projection. This culture is the one that has a history of horrific ongoing violence and warfare, injustice, mistreatment of women and children, greed, and unfathomable destruction toward EVERYTHING.