According to encyclopaedia Iranica, AFGHAN ( afḡān ) in current political usage means any citizen of Afghanistan, whatever their ethnic, tribal, or religious affiliation is.

The structure of the current tribal government, established in the 1930s, is a direct result of commercial, missionary, and federal collaboration.

Their current tribal chairperson is Leroy Shingoitewa.

The tribal council was established on December 19, 1936, and the current administration is as follows:

The current administration's seven-member council has publicly stated that the tribal nation's priorities are protecting tribal sovereignty ; focusing on the educational, emotional and physical well being of tribal members ; and working to leverage the tribe's financial and economic strengths through partnership initiatives, both locally and abroad.

Proponents of this definition argue that it agrees with current scientific understanding, which is that it is not in all cases possible for prehistoric remains to be traced to current tribal entities, partly because of social upheaval, forced resettlement and extinction of entire ethnicities caused by disease and warfare.

Such practices as are still current are mostly associated with either Shaktism or with local tribal traditions.

An act passed in 1892, on Rhodes ' insistence, imposed an educational test on applications who wanted to register to vote as well as creating several other restrictions on the native vote as there were fears that " tribal " natives would possibly " endanger " the current system of government.

Janice Kurak is the current tribal chairperson of the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma.

The current makeup, including profiles of the current tribal council can be found at: http :// www. puyallup-tribe. com / government / tribal-council /

The current tribal council consists of: Carol Hatch ( chair ), Tony Foster ( vice-chair ), DeAnna Hobson ( secretary ), and Anna Rose Counsell ( treasurer ).

From c. 300 CE the whole current area of Kostroma with exception the area east of River Unzha was part of historical Finno-Ugric peoples ' lands, like the Merya people and their loose tribal confederation.

The current tribal business council is Chairman Tex G. Hall ( At-large ), who was elected November 2, 2010 ; Vice-Chairman Scott Eagle ( New Town 2008-2012 ); Treasurer Mervin Packineau ( Parshall 2002-2014 ); Secretary V. Judy Brugh ( 4 Bears 2006-2014 ); Arnold Strahs ( Mandaree 2008-2012 ); Frank White Calfe ( White Shield 2004-2012 ); and Barry Benson ( Twin Buttes 2006-2014 ).

Most recently, many residents were upset about what they described as the autocratic and repressive actions by the current tribal president Dick Wilson, elected in 1972.

The current government has expressed its intention to modify the law, which would allow, for example, for the quick recognition of the native Mbyá-Guaraní tribal religion.

The current tribal Chairwoman is Lori Bear Skiby, replacing her late father Lawrence Bear.

As per current predominant thought, Jagannath, embodies the metamorphosis of tribal god into a pre-eminent deity of the classical Hindu pantheon.

The Banu Hilal, a Bedouin Arabian tribal confederation immigrated first to Libya reducing the percentage of Zenata Berbers and Sanhaja Berber population in North Africa into a minority of its current Arab dominated population.

The current tribal lands are in eastern Polk County, Texas.

Many Native American tribes continue to employ blood quantum in current tribal laws to determine who is eligible for membership or citizenship in the tribe or Native American nation.

The current southern border of British Columbia was established by the 1846 Oregon Treaty, although its history is tied with lands as far south as California.

The town was officially incorporated in 1694, and originally included the lands of the current town of Brewster.

Historical Lesser Poland is much bigger than the current voivodeship which bears its name ; stretching from Częstochowa in the west to the lands northeast of Lublin in the east.

Western influence has been instrumental in eliminating the restrictions and protections of the dhimma contract, thereby contributing to the current state of relations between Muslims and non-Muslims living in Islamic lands.

For example, the magnitude of a river's current, i. e. the amount of water that flows through a cross-section of the river each second, or the amount of sunlight that lands on a patch of ground each second is also a kind of flux.

The ruler replied that he would not stand and fight with Darius until they found the graves of their fathers and tried to destroy them-until then, they could continue their current technique as they had no cities or cultivated lands to lose.

According to the descriptions of Strabo, Dio Cassius and other Graeco-Roman geographers, the lands of Asturias were inhabited in the beginning of the Christian era by several peoples, amongst whom the more important were: From the Cantabrians, the Vadinienses, who inhabited the Picos de Europa region and whose settlement gradually expanded southward during the first centuries of the modern era ; the Orgenomesci, who dwelled along the Asturian eastern coast ; and from the Astures, the Saelini, whose settlement extended through the Sella valley ; the Luggones, who had their capital in Lucus Asturum and whose territories stretched between the rivers Sella and Nalón ; the Astures ( in the strictest sense ), who dwelled in inner Asturias, between the current councils of Piloña and Cangas del Narcea ; and the Paesici, who had settled along the coast of Western Asturias, between the mouth of the Navia river and the modern city of Gijón.

Conflict between the Ponca and the Sioux / Lakota, who now claimed the land as their own by US law, forced the US to remove the Ponca from their own ancestral lands to Indian Territory in 1877, parts of the current Kay and Noble counties in Oklahoma.

By 1813 the area once comprising the sprawling county of Northumberland had been divided over time and allotted to other counties such that lands once occupied by Old Northumberland at its greatest extent are now found in Centre, Columbia, Luzerne, Lycoming, Mifflin, Union, Clearfield, Clinton, Montour, Bradford, Lackawanna, Susquehanna, Wyoming, Tioga, Potter, McKean, Warren, Venango, Snyder, and Schuylkill Counties and the current county is but a fraction of its former size.

On the lands south of the factory ( and current Orangewood Avenue ), Fred Bixby, son of John Bixby and future member of the Cowboy Hall of Fame, used the sugar beet lands as a finishing ranch to fatten cattle before sending them off to slaughter ( he also managed Hellman's lands in present Seal Beach ).

In the 1880s the indigenous Cahuilla tribe sold their land plots to the railroads for new lands east of the current town site, and in the 1890s, a few hundred traqueros took up settlement along the tracks.

Lake Providence is located adjacent to the Mississippi River ; and prior to the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers building the current levee system, the meandering river would overflow its bank and take valuable lands.

During the reorganization of Morris County in 1806, Chatham Township was formed as the governmental entity to include three existing pre-revolutionary villages ( the current municipalities of Chatham, Florham Park, and Madison ) as well as all of the lands still governed by the current Chatham Township, and thus the governmental division of Bottle Hill was ended and it was reunited as far as governance was concerned.

Some estate and early farm lands were donated to the Roman Catholic church and make up the current grounds of St Mary's of East Islip which includes a private elementary and middle school, in addition to church and other parish buildings.

By 1790 the town assumed its current dimensions as lands were removed for other towns.

The most significant area of this agreement was giving the city of Kenosha the ability to annex lands north of STH 50 from Green Bay Road to I-94, where the current Southport Plaza shopping center, WhiteCaps subdivision, River Crossing subdivision and the Aurora Hospital are located.

Thus the lands that make up the current province came under occupation of these, up to the barbarian invasions of the early V century A. D.

To the north of the current town is Cressing Temple which was the earliest foundation of Templar lands in Britain, built over 700 years ago.

As emperor, Iturbide had sovereignty over lands bordered by Panama in the south and the Oregon Country in the north, including the current countries of Central America and the U. S. states of California, Texas, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, and New Mexico.

During the wars waged in the Baltic by the Catholic German Teutonic Knights ; the lands inhabited by the ethnic group of the Old Prussians ( the current reference to the people known then simply as the " Prussians "), were conquered by the Germans.

In 1993 the three parts were merged to form the current district-the new name refers to Northmarch lands at the Oder river.