Editing TROS in the Hammer:Setting Political People (section)

===Roles of Men and Women===
The culture of the People is matrilineal; one's family name comes through one's mother.  Women and men have different but complementary roles in society.  The men are expected to get the job done right now; the women are expected to look out for the long term interests of the tribe.  Men are considered the primary laborers/workers of the tribe, and generally perform the lion's share of whatever occupation the tribe is known for.  Women are the ones that safeguard the intellectual property of the tribe.  Each tribe will have its own types of allied spirits which its women will know the ways of summoning.  Also, the women will be the keepers of any secret techniques, legends, or other  that the tribe has collected over the years.  For example, the women of the Deep Shadows Pierced With Light tribe, a mining tribe of the Big Circle Lake area, not only know the ways to summon deep earth spirits to protect miners or seek out new veins of ore, but they also are the keepers of the various techniques used by the tribe to get at ore, move it around, how to properly brace a tunnel, etc.  This means that while the women are not the primary laborers, they are actively involved in the occupation, if for no other reason than to maintain the knowledge and skills and to improve upon them.