Scottish clans
Plaid-wearing kinship groups
Scottish clans are extended family groups sharing a common ancestor, surname, and territory in the Scottish Highlands.
Each clan has a chief, a tartan pattern, and traditional lands.
The clan system organized Highland society for centuries until suppressed after the 1745 Jacobite uprising.
Today clans persist as cultural and heritage organizations: She traced her ancestry to Clan MacDonald.
- HighlandsNamed elevated regions
- tartanPatterned clan fabric
- blood feudInherited cycle of retribution
- JacobiteSupporter of exiled Stuarts
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
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- ClansIrish clans, Highland clans, ancient clans
- heritage groupshistorical societies, tribal councils, cultural centers, Knights of Columbus, heritage festivals
- Scottish heritagehighland clans, Campbell, MacDonald, Stewart, Fraser
- Tribal AlliancesIroquois Confederacy, Six Nations, Powhatan Confederacy
- genealogyfamily trees, family history, descendants, ancestors, ancestry tracing
Scottish clansnuclear families
Parents and offspring only
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