Editing Abenaki (section)

===Gender, food, division of labor, and other cultural traits===
The Abenaki were a farming society that supplemented agriculture with hunting and gathering. Generally the men were the hunters. The women tended the fields and grew the crops.<ref name="Food">{{cite web| url=http://www.cowasuck.org/lifestyle/food.cfm| title=What We Ate| publisher=Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki People| access-date=March 22, 2010| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716205725/http://www.cowasuck.org/lifestyle/food.cfm| archive-date=July 16, 2011}}</ref> In their fields, they planted the crops in groups of "sisters". The three sisters were grown together: the stalk of corn supported the beans, and squash or pumpkins provided ground cover and reduced weeds.<ref name="Food"/> The men would hunt bears, deer, fish, and birds.

The Abenaki were a patrilineal society, which was common among New England tribes. In this they differed from the [[Iroquois|six Iroquois tribes]] to the west in New York, and from many other North American Native tribes who had [[Matrilineality|matrilineal]] societies.

Groups used the [[Consensus decision-making|consensus]] method to make important decisions.