Sentence examples for clan groups from inspiring English sources

"All four clan groups rely on that river.

Such compromises are aimed at keeping the peace between families or clan groups.

Fijian landownership is in the hands of mataqali, or clan groups, but may be administered through the Native Lands Trust Board.

In the highlands ballot boxes had been stolen and destroyed, people were casting their votes without privacy in plain sight of officials and other voters, and fighting had broken out between rival clan groups and also between voters and police.

And taking pride in the fact that we've got these 70 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island clan groups up and down the Great Barrier Reef coast that have been interacting with this environment for tens of thousands of years".

Practically no Indigenous people worked at the Gove refinery, yet the Yolngu people have been on the receiving end of the benefits – infrastructure, and payments to the two main clan groups – and the ignominies – the alcohol dependency, the suicide – that have come with the mine, both directly and indirectly.

Clan, kin group used as an organizational device in many traditional societies.

Siad was born about 1919 (or earlier) into a nomadic family in the small Marehan clan of the Daarood clan group in Italian Somaliland.

His mum Denise shows me around the Convincing Grounds on the beach at nearby Portland, where an entire clan group were wiped out by a British whaling family.

Six years ago an Aboriginal clan group, the Northern Land Council (NLC) and the then Howard government signed a secret deal to develop Australia's first purpose-built national radioactive waste dump at Muckaty, north of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory.

"So the Manungurra Aboriginal Corporation [an organisation that represents the Kunapa clan group, and of which Smith is chief executive] thought that, as we get huge amounts of sun out on the Barkly [tableland], solar would make sense for us".