Context: The social identity of the children was strongly determined by the tribe's kinship system. Among the matrilineal tribes of the Southeast, the mixed-race children generally were accepted as and identified as Indian, as they gained their social status from their mother's clans and tribes, and often grew up with their mothers and their male relatives. By contrast, among the patrilineal Omaha, for example, the child of a white man and Omaha woman was considered "white"; such mixed-race children and their mothers would be protected, but the children could formally belong to the tribe as members only if adopted by a man.

Question: What determined a child's social identity?
Answer: the tribe's kinship system

Question: What heritage system do Southeast tribes use?
Answer: matrilineal

Question: What were multiracial children with a tribal mother considered to be in tribes of the Southeast?
Answer: Indian

Question: What race did the Omaha view a multiracial child with a white father to be?
Answer: white

Question: What did not determine the social identity of the children?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What was the status of mixed race children in the tribes of the Northwest?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What was the child of a white woman and a Omaha man considered?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who would not protect mixed-race children and their mothers?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who could formally belong to the tribe if they were adopted by a woman?
Answer: Unanswerable