There are a few things to take into account with this. The first thing is what tribe(s) you are referencing. The second thing is how the women and/or children entered the tribe (for example in southwestern America many tribes were composed, to some extent, of mixed-race/ethnicity due to the 'slave raids' that ended with the 'slaves' being brought up to be part of the community). While I'm no expert in this field (only a college student majoring in history and currently taking a western America course) I think you're asking a very difficult question. Perhaps narrow it down to, at least, a region? As far as I've read women and children were all treated pretty similarly because all women performed the same tasks and children are children, but I can imagine there are some instances of special treatment.

Also, for reference, the book Captives and Cousins by Brooks (I forget the first name) talks about the slave raids and impacts on tribal structure in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. That's really the region I've been reading about in terms of social structure within the tribe, and there does not seem to be many major differences. The only one is that women/children of tribal leaders were more likely to be traded for after they were taken (like a hostage but a little different). Interactions among tribal members for the tribal leaders' women/children were not markedly special.