Each tribal territory was divided into four cantons or tetrarchies.

The white government had designated approximately 13 % of its territory for black tribal settlement.

The Curtis Act required the disbanding of tribal courts and governments in order to assimilate the people and prepare the territory for statehood, but the tribe created their own court system in 1900.

According to Joseph Stalin writing in 1913 in Marxism and the National Question: " a nation is not a racial or tribal, but a historically constituted community of people ;" " a nation is not a casual or ephemeral conglomeration, but a stable community of people "; " a common language is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " a nation is formed only as a result of lengthy and systematic intercourse, as a result of people living together generation after generation "; " a common territory is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " a common economic life, economic cohesion, is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " a common psychological make-up, which manifests itself in a common culture, is one of the characteristic features of a nation "; " A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.

Once on the other side, however, they were not allowed back and forth across the border to use British-Indian territory as a sanctuary, nor were they allowed to gather together a tribal army on the British side of the Durand Line.

Although the territory within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's boundaries is largely arid desert or rocky infertile terrain – home for much of its history to tribal nomadic societies with only rudimentary state structures – it has twice in world history had a global impact.

Soon after however, a Parthian tribal chief called Arsaces invaded the Parthian territory around 238 BC to form the Arsacid Dynasty — the starting point of the powerful Parthian Empire.

* Serbs enter their present territory early in the 7th century AD, settling in six distinct tribal delimitations.

In early 6 CE, before Varus was commander on the Rhine, it was Legatus Gaius Sentius Saturninus and Consul Legatus Marcus Aemilius Lepidus under Tiberius who led an army of 65, 000 heavy infantry legionaries, 10, 000 – 20, 000 cavalrymen, archers, 10, 000 – 20, 000 civilians ( 13 legions & entourage, probably about 100, 000 + men ) and was planning a major attack on Maroboduus, the king of the Marcomanni, a tribe of the Suebi who had fled the attacks of Drusus I in 9 BCE into the territory of the Boii, where they formed a powerful tribal alliance with the Hermunduri, Quadi, Semnones, Lugians, Zumi, Butones, Mugilones, Sibini and Langobards.

The Chiricahua tribal territory encompassed today ´ s SE Arizona, SW New Mexico, NE Sonora and NW Chihuahua.

In addition, several other minority groups lived a tribal lifestyle across the territory.

The Ukrainian language was formed by convergence of tribal dialects, mostly due to an intensive migration of the population within the territory of today's Ukraine in later historical periods.

In addition, southwestern Wales was the tribal territory of the Demetae, who had never become thoroughly Romanised.

Their tribal territory stretched from what is now Yellowstone National Park and the headwaters of the Yellowstone River ( E-chee-dick-karsh-ah-shay —" Elk River ") in the west, north to the Musselshell River, then northeast to the Yellowstone's mouth at the Missouri River, then southeast to the confluence of the Yellowstone and Powder Rivers ( Bilap chashee —" Powder River " or " Ash River "), south along the South Fork of the Powder River, confined in the SE by the Rattlesnake Mountains and westwards in the SW by the Wind River Range.

" Before allotment, reservation territory was not owned in the usual western sense, but was reserved for the benefit of entire Indian tribes, with its benefits apportioned to tribe members according to tribal law and custom.

In antiquity Eilat bordered the states of Edom, Midian and the tribal territory of the Rephidim, the indigenous inhabitants of the Sinai Peninsula.

The story prominently features various concepts in Wiradjuri folklore and tradition, such as the ngurupal: this is an area within the tribal territory which is a public assembly space for adult male Wiradjuri who have been formally initiated into manhood, yet which is forbidden ground for females or uninitiated males.

' In Roman times, this was situated in variously Celtic and Germanic territory, being West of the Rhine and subject under to various tribal groups often with mixed ethnic definitions.

This belief may have been inspired by finds of dinosaur fossils in Sioux tribal territory.

Rohe is a word used by the Māori of New Zealand to describe the territory or boundaries of tribal groups.

Control of the waterway and its use as a border was a source of contention between Iran and the predecessor of the Iraqi state since a peace treaty signed in 1639 between the Persian and the Ottoman empires, which divided the territory according to tribal customs and loyalties, without attempting a rigorous land survey.

The name means territory of the middle Saxons and refers to the tribal origin of its inhabitants.

They called their tribal territory Nitawahsin-nanni-" Our Land ", an obvious similarity with Nitassinan-" Our Land ", the name for the homeland of the Innu and Naskapi to the east.

During the so-called Buffalo Wars ( about 1850-1870 ) they penetrated further and further into the territory from the Niitsitapi Confederacy in search for the buffalo, so that the Piegan were forced to evade in the region of the Missouri River ( in Cree: Pikano Sipi-" Muddy River ", " Muddy, turbid River "), the Kainai ( in Cree: Miko-Ew-" stained with blood ", i. e. " the bloodthirsty, cruel ", therefore, in English often referred to as Blood ) withdraw to the Bow River and Belly River, only the Siksika could hold their tribal lands along the Red Deer River.

Accordingly, the systems of tribal arbitration were submerged into a more unified system of justice which formalised the relation between the different " classes " rather than " tribes ".

Finally, he created a system of provincial governorates different from old tribal boundaries.

The competition of individual and collective theories of composition set different demarcations and relations of folk music with the music of tribal societies on the one hand and of " art " and " court " music on the other.

Problems in classification are compounded by different qualifications for tribal membership by different tribes, a fear of registering with a tribe because it is seen as a method of control initiated by the federal government, and the problem of individuals who are of 100 % Native American background who, because of their mixed tribal heritage, do not qualify to belong to any individual tribe.

Once an area of almost tribal allegiance to different schools of thought, today there is wide spread consensus about the structure of personality assessment and its status within the framework of the cross disciplinary progress being made in our understanding of Human Nature.

Other 19th-and early 20th-century contemporaneous documents indicate that the policy of removing Aboriginal children from their parents related to different beliefs: that given the catastrophic population decline of Aboriginal people after white contact that they would " die out ", that the ' full-blood ' tribal Aboriginal population would be unable to sustain itself, and was doomed to inevitable extinction.

Swahili is seen as the unifying language of the country between different tribes, who each have their own tribal language ; English serves the purpose of providing Tanzanians with the ability to participate in the global economy and culture.

During the original debate over the amendment Senator Jacob M. Howard of Michigan — the author of the Citizenship Clause — described the clause as having the same content, despite different wording, as the earlier Civil Rights Act of 1866, namely, that it excludes Native Americans who maintain their tribal ties and " persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers.

Due to the different linguistic, cultural and geographical environment, and its peculiar complications, the diverse tribal world of Madhya Pradesh has been largely cut-off from the mainstream of development.

Some scholars believe that the Chinese dragon form originated from totems of different tribes in China, as a merger of totems of various tribes consequential to tribal mergers.

Critical scholars argue that the two halves had different origins noting that in the Book of Chronicles that the western half tribe and eastern half tribe historically had separate tribal rulers.

The people of the Rift Valley are a mesh work of different tribal identities, and the Kalenjin and the Maasai are two of the best known ethnic groups.

It is called to be the meeting place, where the village related issued discussed, but it is different from the " Jirgah " which is the tradition of tribal areas of Pakistan.

To illustrate this variation in a small way, and to demonstrate that there is no one correct way to tell the story of Tāwhaki, two versions from different tribal groups are presented below.

The mound builders included many different tribal groups and chiefdoms, involving an array of beliefs and unique cultures over thousands of years.

The town is served by different forms of media, such as KEYA, a tribal radio station that can be found at 88. 5 FM ; the Turtle Mountain Times, the tribally-owned newspaper which was established in 2003 ; and The Tribal Independent, an independently-owned online newspaper established in 2011.

Performance artists and theorists point to different traditions and histories, ranging from tribal to sporting and ritual or religious events.

The large number of different tribes meant that there were not enough interpreters, and potentially dangerous tribal rivalries needed attention.

Afghanistan seems to simultaneously practice both dowry and bride price, although the practice differs between different tribal and ethnic groups.

In Outlines in Historical Jurisprudence " ( 1920 – 22 ), Vinogradoff traces the development of basic themes of jurisprudence, including marriage, property, and succession, in six different types of society: the totemistic, the tribal, the ancient city state, the medieval system of feudalism and canon law, and modern industrial society.

Being rooted in Germanic tribal law, the various regional laws of the Frankish Empire ( and the later Holy Roman Empire ) prescribed different particulars, such as equipment and rules of combat.

Comprising members of many different tribes and tribal confederations, such as the Āl Bū Muḥammad, Ferayghāt, Shaghanbah and Banī Lām, the Maʻdān had developed a unique culture centred around the marshes ' natural resources.