Each gens would, of course, have an equal share in the government.
Each gens would of course be represented in the council.
Each gens, through its council, would regulate its own affairs, and would punish all offenses against the law committed by one of its members against another.
Each gens would, of course, elect its own officers.
Each gens is a body of consanguineal kindred in the female line, and each gens is allied to other gentes by consanguineal kinship through the male line, and by affinity through marriage.
The following schedule presents the name of a man and a woman in each gens, as illustrating this statement: Wun-dát English.
There is a body of names belonging to each gens, so that each person's name indicates the gens to which he belongs.
In this manner there are usually one, two, or more potential councilors in each gens, who are expected to attend all the meetings of the council, though they take no part in the deliberations and have no vote.
In a village of one hundred and twenty houses, as the Seneca village of Tiotohatton described by Mr. Greenbalge in 1677, there would be several houses belonging to each gens.
But it seems probable that in former days there were subgentes in each gens, while in the course of time changes occurred, owing to decrease in numbers and the advent of the white men.
The number of the latter varies, at present, according to the particular gens; though the writer has found traces of the existence of four subgentes in each gens in former days.
This is evidently the classification for marriage purposes, referred to in § 78; and the writer is confident that La Flèche and Two Crows always mean this when they speak of the divisions of each gens.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "each gens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
