Shimkin's chart of the yearly subsistence cycle shows June and July as a period of intertribal rendezvous while August and early September were spent in family groups (p.
In the period before the ending of intertribalhostilities in Wyoming camps were closely clustered to allow for mutual defense in the event of an attack, but after the pacification of the area, people pitched their tipis farther apart.
Intertribal warfare was perpetual, save now and then for truces of brief duration.
Beyond the Urabunna custom in intertribal marriages, however, which is hardly decisive evidence, there does not appear to be any proof that the transference from one phratry to the other ever took place.
In the other three cases the facts seem to point to a change in the intertribal relationships in the period intervening between the adoption of phratry names and the introduction of the class system.
In Africa slavery has been intimately associated with agriculture as a source of wealth, and therefore has lent motive to intertribal wars.
Here a sterile plateau hinterland drove them for part of their subsistence to the water, and the continuous intertribal warfare of small primitive states to the sea-girt asylums of the capes.
That savages to some extent recognise the existence of intertribal rights in times of peace is obvious from certain customs connected with their wars.
Footnote 75: See also Wheeler, The Tribe, and Intertribal Relations in Australia, passim.
Moreover, even in the case of intertribal relations, we must not conclude that what is allowed in war is also allowed in times of peace.
Savages' recognition of intertribal rights in times of peace obvious from certain customs connected with their wars, p.
Meddling with unmanageable things is never good policy, and interference with intertribal relations of savages is generally inhumane as well as impolitic.
As a passing thought, it is a curious and formidable fact that the prohibition of intertribalwars and forays all through East Central Africa had already permitted the population to increase to a point of discomfort.
Now that the white man has put a stop to the ferocious intertribal wars, the El-morani are out of a job.
The sale, he said, must be brought about, or the "world would be on fire with an intertribal war.
This tendency to the establishment of intertribal jargons was greatly accelerated on the advent of the white man, for thereby many tribes were pushed from their ancestral homes and tribes were mixed with tribes.
Where many peoples, each few in number, are thrown together, an intertribal language is developed.
To a large extent this is gesture speech; but to a limited extent useful and important words are adopted by various tribes, and out of this material an intertribal “jargon” is established.
Again, tribes driven from their ancestral homes often retreated to lands previously occupied by other tribes, and intertribal wars resulted therefrom.
Such intertribal wars as occurred originated from other causes, such as infraction of rights relating to hunting grounds and fisheries, and still oftener prejudices growing out of their superstitions.
Intertribal jealousies have generally been our strongest ally, and never until the year 1897 have we found such a serious combination of tribes against us.
It was the beginning of a decline for the Pueblo tribes, and this decline was hastened by intertribal warfare, by drought, and by ravages from wild Indians.
In 1824 the United States required of the tribes in this region to define their territory, a demand which intensified and gave a new turn to their intertribal warfare.
During these intertribal reunions the contests between the tribes were recalled and their events rehearsed, the dead heroes on both sides receiving special tributes of honor.
It is easily seen that these intertribal contests were not based upon the same motives nor waged for the same objects as the wars of civilization--namely, for spoil and territorial aggrandizement.
The annals contain nothing save a record ofintertribal warfare, which the high-king was rarely powerful enough to stay.
During this period Ireland enjoyed comparative rest notwithstanding the intertribal feuds in which the Norse settlers shared, including the campaigns of Cormac, son of Cuilennan, the scholarly king-bishop of Cashel.
As stated in the narrative, Wafford himself had also seen the belts brought out and explained in a great intertribal council at Tahlequah.
The very existence of a trade jargon or a sign language is proof of intertribal relations over wide areas.
For more in regard to these intertribalwars see the historical traditions.
Intertribal communication was through gestures; it may be, survivals of a primordial speech, antedating the differentiated spoken languages.
One competent to judge asserts that peace, not war, was the normal intertribal habit.
Intertribal peace and the possession of boats to make travel easy did the rest.
In the days of intertribal warfare if a village was to exist at all it must have food stored against a siege.
Intertribal wars conquered the natural indolence and apathy of the people, but, with the bestowal of the pax Britannica this impulse failed.
The Fijians are in a transition stage between two systems of struggle for existence--the physical struggle of intertribal war, and the moral struggle of modern competition.
Cannibalism and intertribal wars have frequently been assigned as potent factors in the decimation, but it is notable that neither has had such effect in the Solomon or New Hebridean groups, where both are prevalent today.
The practice of cannibalism undoubtedly originated in the over-populated days of the island when, in the seasons of famine, the bodies of those killed in the intertribal raids were eaten by the survivors to escape starvation.
Such a one had no wife to lose in an intertribal war, while there was always a chance that he might emerge from such a struggle in full, if transient, possession of that supreme desideratum.
All of the movements were consistent and, despite intertribal friction and strife, measurably harmonious.
As most of the early peoples were nomadic, or periodically nomadic, there must have been in localities a good deal of interracial and intertribal fusion, with the result that intermediate varieties were produced.
In Alaska the Indians still roam at large with no other restraint than that arising from the adjustment reached through intertribal relations, with slight modifications due to the widely scattered settlements of white men.
One important result of the present firm control is the total cessation of intertribal warfare.
Intertribal barter was carried on, however, and the capture of supplies and utensils of various sorts by one tribe from another favoured their dispersion.
It would seem, however, that these ceremonies are, as often as not, intertribal rather than tribal.
To this indefinite type ofintertribal association the term "nation" is sometimes applied.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intertribal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
