The Iroquoians were sedentary and practised horticulture. They lived in semi-permanent villages that could have as many as 2,000 people. Within the villages, the longhouse formed the basic social unit and housed five to ten families. The composition of the group in each house depended on matrilineal descent because lineage was defined by the women. When a couple married, the man moved into his wife's longhouse. 
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