In some traditional societies and cultures, membership in their groups was – and, in the following list, still "is" if shown in "italics" – inherited matrilineally. Examples include the Cherokee, Choctaw, Sicewa, Seneca, Minotoan "Gitksan", Haida, Hopi, Iroquois, Lenape, Navajo and Tlingit of North America; the "Kuna people" of Panama; the "Kogi" and Carib of South America; the "Minangkabau" people of West Sumatra, Indonesia and Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia; the "Trobrianders", "Dobu" and "Nagovisi" of Melanesia; the Thiyyas, Nairs and Muslims of Kerala and the Mogaveeras, Billavas & the Bunts of Karnataka in south India; the "Khasi", "Jaintia" and "Garo" of Meghalaya in northeast India; the "Ngalops" and "Sharchops" of Bhutan; "Muslims" and the "Tamils" in eastern Sri Lanka; the "Mosuo" of China; the "Kayah" of Southeast Asia, the Picti of Scotland, the Basques of Spain and France; the Ainu of Japan, the "Akan" including the "Ashanti", "Bono", "Akwamu", "Fante" of Ghana; most groups across the so-called "matrilineal belt" of south-central Africa; the "Tuareg" of west and north Africa; the "Serer" of Senegal, The Gambia and Mauritania.