A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe.

A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of Athens was divided into ten tribes.

A social group that has a strong sense of identity and may have a family arrangement as its core.

A group of people living together under a leader.

A house ruled by a Chief.

A group of people with who share a common background.

a group of families, clans, or generations; Tribes, Trade Kingdoms

A society consisting of several communities united by kinship, culture, language and other social institutions.

A group of people united by ties of descent from a common ancestor and a set of shared customs and traditions.

any collection or group of people united by ties of descent from a common ancestor, community, or tradition.

a social division of (usually preliterate) people

a federation (as of American Indians)

group of people related by blood or marriage

a basic social unit

a community of souls who share common experiences, bloodlines, knowledge, spiritual beliefs and language

a congregation of many clans

a cross-genenerational community of many significant shared experiences and shared social ethical purposes

a cross-generational community of many significant shared experiences (including religious experiences) and social ethical purposes

a group made up of local Clans and are normally country, state or province-wide

a group of cooperating people, any one of whom could, ultimately, go off alone and still survive

a group of families under a recognized chief and usually claiming a common ancestor

a group of families with a common way of life

a group of Native Americans sharing a common language and culture

a group of nominally independent communities occupying a specific region, sharing a common language and culture, which are integrated by some unifying factor

a group of people that stick together and support each other

a group of people who act, to some degree, altruistically

a group of people who honor the same perceptions

a group of persons, and nothing else

a group of related people who live together or near each other (the word is often associated with Native American Indians)

a group that shares a common bond

an almost extinict American Indian clan that has survived for years on beer and sea stories

a naturally balanced, healthy cultural group

an Indian group which possesses certain qualities and characteristics that make it a unique cultural, social, and political entity

a social group comprising numerous families, clans or generations together inhabiting common lands

a voluntary social unit in which its members have (to some degree) an altruistic relationship with each other

A social group with a definite dialect, cultural homogeneity, and unifying social organization. It may include several sub-groups such as sibs or sub-tribes. A tribe ordinarily has a leader and a patron deity. The families or small communities making up the tribe are linked through economic, social, religious, family, and blood ties. Uto-Aztecan A language stock that became a living language after the Ice Age. The great Uto-Aztecan fission probably took place in present Nevada about gigantic Lake Lahontan as a result of the Altithermal. Famous ethnies of the Uto-Aztecan language phylum include the Aztecs, Hopi, Pima, Comanche, and Bannock. Those in California are the Tubatulabl, the Takic speaking peoples of the south and Numic Paiutes, Western Shoshone, and Chemehuevi.

an Indian nation, Indian tribe, or native sovereign nation.

a descent and kinship-based group in which subgroups are clearly linked to one another, with the potential of uniting a large number of local groups for common defense or warfare.

A territorial population in which were are kin or nonkin groups with representatives in a number of local groups.

a community of people with the same culture and language

A federally-recognized American Indian or Alaska Native government.

see Indian tribe.

A group of people able to support a level of subsistence in a permanent settlement. Varves - Layers of alluvium deposited by retreating glaciers.

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(tribe) n. – a group of people who live together, share the same culture, language and history; and have a traditional way of life.

group of a few hundred to a few thousand individuals, commonly settled farmers or pastoralist herders, usually descended from a common ancestor; loosely organized without central control or strongly developed hierarchy

A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally, consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states, though some modern theorists hold that contemporary tribes can only be understood in terms of their relationship to states.