Of Pawnees and Shawnees

Usage examples of tribal.

Hence it was held that certain Indian allottees under an agreement according to which, in part consideration of their relinquishment of all their claim to tribal property, they were to receive in severalty allotments of lands which were to be nontaxable for a specified period, acquired vested rights of exemption from State taxation which were protected by the Fifth Amendment against abrogation by Congress.

Among the crocheted doilies of missionary artisanship and hammered copper plates representing idealized tribal maidens or trumpeting elephants that were African bourgeois taste, there hung in the dimness Edward Lear watercolours of Italy and Stubbs sporting prints swollen with humidity and spotted as blighted leaves.

And thus it is small wonder that, in these ecologically disastrous times, many moderns are attempting to resurrect the natural wisdom of tribal awareness more attuned with the biosphere.

Even then Brek was forced to live far from Olbia and to accept the constant interference by a Mirayan magistrate in those few tribal duties left to him.

President Clinton signed a Memorandum of Notification authorizing the CIA to let its tribal assets use force to capture Bin Ladin and his associates.

August Memorandum of Notification, the CIA had already been working on new plans for using the Afghan tribals to capture Bin Ladin.

In prehistoric times, the tribal and nomadic people of the Mediterranean basin overcut and overgrazed the land so severely that the scars of the resulting erosion can still be seen.

They were not true charvolants, these raiders, but atabanques, with canopies consisting only of photonic parafoils and death-lamps, none of the vast array of traditional kites used on tribal ships and National vessels.

It specified that new pontifices and augurs must be elected by a tribal Assembly comprising seventeen of the thirty-five tribes chosen by lot.

He was a primitive, and all primitives, civilized or preliterate, were tribal people.

Anishnabeg were a preliterate people who shared tribal wisdom through storytelling, memorable tales that always had a point.

The ancient Anishnabeg were a preliterate people who shared tribal wisdom through storytelling, memorable tales that always had a point.

Redwing of Springtree, Basl and Karpas, soon many believed to become Basl, Karpas and Redwing, had legal matters on her mind light years away from tribal concerns.

States into their tribal subholons, bathed in blood and kinship lineage and tribal warfare on a vicious scale: the retribalization of large portions of the world.

Helen rode between John and Gavin and listened to their conversation about the Santal tribal rebellion in Bengal against British efforts to control them and to tax their land.