Royaner

Male leaders of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy at the Grand River in Ontario in 1871, including hereditary royaner and non-hereditary leaders.

The Royaner are the hereditary male clan leaders within the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. They are chosen by their respective Yakoyaner to represent their clan at the confederacy level.[1][2] The specific name-titles held by the royaner belong to the matrilineal lineages headed by the clan mothers. These male leaders are expected to serve their community for life, although there are ways of removing a royaner if he does not live up to his lineage's expectations.[1] With the clan mothers, the royaner form the hereditary leadership that distinguishes itself from the elected Band Council imposed by the Canadian state.[2]

  1. ^ a b Haudenosaunee Confederacy. "Government".
  2. ^ a b Mann, Barbara (2000). "Governmental functioning and powers of the Haudenosaunee League". In Johansen, Bruce Elliott; Mann, Barbara Alice (eds.). Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy). Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 122–131. ISBN 978-0-313-30880-2.