Such precise numerical uniformity in the composition of each phratry and tribe could not have resulted from the subdivision of gentes through natural processes.
In due time the tribe became individualized by a name, which, from their usual character, must have been in many cases accidental rather than deliberate.
Unoccupied and waste lands still remained as the common property of the gens, the tribe and the nation.
The tribe corresponds with the Latin tribe, and also with those of the American aborigines, an independent dialect for each tribe being necessary to render the analogy with the latter complete.
Each Attic tribe was composed of three phratries, and each phratry of thirty gentes, making an aggregate of twelve phratries, and of three hundred and sixty gentes in the four tribes.
If the minute history of the Indian tribes is ever recovered it must be sought through the gentes and phratries, which can be followed from tribe to tribe.
A tribe [gens] is considered a family, and a man never marries into his own tribe.
Each tribe was individualized by a name, by a separate dialect, by a supreme government, and by the possession of a territory which it occupied and defended as its own.
There are several gentes intermingled by marriage in every tribe composed of gentes.
Marcius Rex annihilated the Staeni, probably a Ligurian tribe of the Maritime Alps, who were in the line of the Roman approach to South Gaul, and for this success he gained a triumph.
The first tribe voted in the affirmative, and Gracchus implored Octavius even now to give way, but in vain.
He lost his army in defending the Macedonian frontier against a tribe of Gauls called Scordisci, who were in their turn defeated by M.
The Arverni were rivals of the Aedui and friends of the Allobroges, a tribe in the same latitude, but on the east of the Rhone.
Aemilius Scaurus, whose name we have met with before, triumphed over the Karni, a tribe to the north of the Adriatic.
Each tribe was divided into ten centuries, five of seniors and five of juniors.
It was only when the incorruptible Gerald Tribe had admitted it that she also had been convinced.
And yet he could not believe that Denis had told her, and Vanessa and Tribe had surely not had time to do so.
She and Lord Henry had been losing ground for some time, and having separated themselves from Mrs. Tribe and Guy Tyrrell, had fallen much to the rear.
Before he had come on the scene Mrs. Tribe had been as becomingly meek and humble as she always was in London, but for some reason, which the spinster could hardly explain, Lord Henry's friendship had quite transformed her.
Vanessa and Tribe are close behind," he said; "they'll be here in a minute.
It was clear that Mrs. Tribehad suddenly changed her mind about going to bed.
Lord Henry saw that Mrs. Tribe did not dare to reply herself, so he replied for her.
He smiled guilelessly into the young man's face, and he, Stephen, and Mrs. Tribe vanished into the darkness.
He accordingly had recourse to stratagem, and gave out that the object of his journey to the tribal quarters was to coerce a section of the tribe which had been giving trouble.
The ostensible cause of the chiefs removal from power was that with his own hands he had killed his wife, the sister of his cousin, Rahmat-ulla-Khan, who was known to be his rival in the tribe for place and power.
There was but the feeble remnant of the most powerful tribe in the world.
I saw the last Indian tribe leave the soil of Ohio in 1843, the Wyandotte Nation.
The Indian said that amongst his tribe the hunters often used this mode of hunting, and what beaver was left unkilled they either trapped later on or trenched them out when the ice set fast.
A life chief was elected by the Indians themselves, and he was supported in his management of the tribe by the officer in charge of the post.
But for you, he might have persuaded the tribe to elect him chief in place of Old Smoky Wolf.
In the early part of the previous autumn Bending Willow had returned from the wild rice fields where she and the women of the tribe had reaped a goodly harvest.
Then up the Canon River to its head waters where stood the villages of the Wahpekutes, the fourth tribe of the Minnesota Sioux.
Here he paused, thinking it best not to mention Slow Dog, for he was a Sioux and the tribemust not be humiliated by the telling of his treachery.
A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only.
One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
There is sympathy even among the hair-like oscillatorias, a tribe of simple plants, armies of which may be discovered, with the aid of the microscope, in the tiniest bit of scum from a stagnant pool.
One day I said, "Do the men of your tribewin in fight?
After many years of warfare, Many years of strife and bloodshed, There is peace between the Ojibways And the tribe of the Dacotahs.
One day two travelling coaches rolled into Freudenthal--the Sittmann tribe arrived.
He had come among the people of the tribe many months ago.
Some said the tribe would never win in war while the child lived;--it was a curse.
Two men out hunting had fallen into the hands of a hostile tribeand been "boloed.
Once, many, many years before, there had been an ancestor of his who had been famous through all the tribe for his goodness and wisdom.
Evidently not of any tribe of which he had any knowledge, and they had a stronger resemblance to the cannibals than to any others he had seen.
The wholetribe of cactæ was here represented, stretching its long snake-like arms over the rocky place, giving it a peculiarly ugly appearance.
He will blow his horn, and draw the whole tribe on us if you attempt to strangle him.
Lewis would not believe they were dead, and had devoted the whole time of their absence in wandering from tribe to tribe, in his endeavors to gain some information of them.
One of the Indians has escaped to give the alarm, and perhaps within this hour or as soon as daylight, the whole tribe will be down upon us.
The physician at the station gave me over, and as a last resort the medicine man of a neighboring tribe took me in hand, pow-wow'd me, and from that hour I began to recover.
You are not all treacherous, even now," said the trapper, "and whether the tribe is to which these belong is for the future to determine.
Thus every tribe has its own legends, while many vague traditions of national history are peculiar to the whole of the North American Indians without regard to tribe.
This greatly elated them; and, as not one of the tribe understood English, they were able, at all times, to converse and devise plans without fear of detection by being overheard.
They are from over the desert," said Whirlwind to Howe's inquiry of what tribe they were, "and have been taken in battle.
If we survived we were to become part of the tribe to supply the places of the lost warriors; if we fell, the stake awaited us.
You have no horses, and if you should get killed our tribe would be laughed at and be made fun of as you have such poor clothes, and we don't want the enemy to know that we have any one of our tribe who dresses so poorly as you do.
Said he: "My friends, seeing that yourtribe was running short of arrowheads, I set a great many of my tribe to work making flint arrowheads for you.
He was sent for, and through him the oath of allegiance to the Crow tribe was taken by Big Eagle.
I am not so good a marksman as you, but I will go to this suffering tribe and try to rid them of their three enemies.
THE STORY OF THE PET CRANE There was once upon a time a man who did not care to live with his tribe in a crowded village, but preferred a secluded spot in the deep forest, there to live with his wife and family of five children.
The young men of the tribewere very jealous, but their jealousy was all to no purpose.
All summer he had roamed around following the tribe to wherever their fancy might take them.
The whole tribe saw that had it not been for this wise decision there would have been a great shedding of blood in the tribe.
Upon hearing what the crow stated the tribe became grief stricken.
In vain were the best medicine men of the tribe sent for.
Ruling over a large portion of country in about the twenty-sixth parallel of latitude, there was a chief named Moselekatse, whose tribe was termed Matabili.
The Zulu tribe are those Kaffirs who inhabit the country east of Natal.
These emigrants, shortly after quitting the neighbourhood of the Cape colony, were attacked by the chief of a powerful tribe called the Matabili, into whose country they had trespassed.
The Griquas are a tribeof bastard Hottentots, many of them being nearly white; and thus, in a Matabili's opinion, nearly every white man was an enemy.
The Matabili are a tribe of Kaffirs in the interior, nearly due north of Natal.
The Zulus instantly saw him, and all listened to hear the news, for they immediately concluded that one of their tribe had forestalled them on the spoor, and could give them intelligence of the enemy they were hunting.
The Christians are not a local tribe having an insulated local situation amongst Germans, French, etc.
He had, during the life-time of the late emperor, procured from the free tribe of the Chickahominies the title of their king.
It was in the course of these disturbances, that the Massachusetts troops in 1728 defeated the tribe of the Noridgewocks; among the results of which invasion, was the death of the celebrated Father Rolle, their missionary.
It was especially applicable to the relation which the Cherokees, a powerful tribe within the limits of Georgia, sustained to the general government.
These were a tribe occupying the place where Norwich now stands.
As already mentioned, he was sachem of the Nianticks, a tribe of the Narragansets.
But, in this dilemma, Hertel and Hopehood (a celebrated chief of the tribe of the Kennebecks), arrived.
Scarcely a hundred warriors remained of the great leading tribe of the Narragansets.
The tribe of Pawtuckets occupied the land upon the Merrimack near its mouth, as their principal seat, though they extended themselves south until they came in contact with the Massachusetts.
He was sachem of thetribe at the time of the landing of the fathers on the shores of New England, and continued in this capacity to the time of his death, in 1647.
The tribe found to be the most docile and susceptible of improvement, was that of the Hurons; and their great numbers presented a wide field for religious effort.
The Iroquois continually extended their dominion, conquering one tribe of their fellow-savages after another, and even insulting the French in their fortified posts.
The tribe of the Narragansets held their chief seat on the island of the Canonicut, in the bay called after their name.
At the same time, the report of the slaughter and horrid cruelties, committed by this savage tribe against the people of Connecticut, roused the other colonies to exertions against the common enemy.
The tribe of Pequods were seated in the eastern part of Connecticut, having the Narragansets on their eastern border.
Arriving in the enemy's country, the Massachusetts army, finding a body of that tribe in a swamp, made an assault upon them, with the aid of the Narragansets.
The Paionians when they heard that their cities were in the hands of the enemy, at once dispersed, each tribe to its own place of abode, and proceeded to deliver themselves up to the Persians.
One of his magnificent sayings and one appreciated by the entire artistic tribe was his ejaculation: "Damn paint!
He belongs to the fierce tribe of synics and men of exuberant powers, like Goya and Courbet.
Egypt; Israel is merely a desert tribe inspired to settle in Palestine.
He himself was qualified to be the legitimate head of a united state, for he was of the tribe of Aaron.
Individual leaders in times of stress acquired a recognized supremacy, and, once a tribe outstripped the rest, the opportunities for continued advance gave further scope to their authority.
The hostility of the "sons of Zeruiah" towards the tribe of Benjamin is characteristically contrasted with David's own generosity towards Saul's fallen house.
The country for ten miles north of Jerusalem was the exposed and highly debatable district ascribed to the young tribe of Benjamin (the favourite "brother" of both Judah and Joseph; Gen.
After a brief visit to France, where he was treated with high honour, he returned to the Mohawk country in May 1646 and ratified a treaty between that tribe and the Canadian government.
First the censors, after having for a long time claimed the right of transferring citizens arbitrarily from one tribe to another, allowed most persons to enrol themselves in whatever tribe they pleased.
Each man declared his vote aloud, and a clerk duly wrote it down; the majority in each tribe determined the vote of the tribe, the majority of the tribes that of the people, and so with curiae and centuries.
Besides this, out of each tribe was taken a body of one hundred Equites or Knights, called a century, which shows that these divisions, being unnecessary in a town, were at first merely military.
Deliberately assumed ignorance of the grossest sort, by Mark Twain and his companions, had the most devastating effect upon the foreign guide --one of that countless tribe to all of whom Mark applied the generic name of Ferguson.
It is called Blood River on account of the horrible massacre which took place there many years before, when the Swazi kaffirs murdered a whole kaffir tribe without distinction of age or sex, literally turning the river red with blood.
The following year hostilities were commenced against the Magato tribe in the north of the Republic.
We met several times, and looked at each other with a good deal of curiosity; he anxious to know what kind of animal an old schoolmistress was, and I to ascertain with what tribe an old school-master should be classed.
