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Polygamy was fairly common. Often they were sisters because traditional Navajo were matrilocal and matrilineal, which means a man goes and lives on his wife's family's land and that one belongs to your mother's clan. About 9% listed having multiple wives on the 1900 census but because it was illegal the number was probably higher. Most who had more than one wife had two or three. The Navajo Nation law currently outlaws polygamy.

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