Sentence examples for descent tribes from inspiring English sources

Especially among the less well educated, groups based on kinship and descent — tribes and their various subsets (subtribes, clans) — provide both a social network and a safety net: members of your group will get you a job or help you if you have money problems or mourn you when you die even if they didn't like you much while you were alive.

Their tales of descent from lost tribes seem, to the sceptical, highly dubious, bordering on the fabulous, and have no basis in the historical record.

The Harlem Israelites trace their descent from the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, which were driven into Africa and settled in Ethiopia.

Macedonians generally trace their descent to the Slavic tribes that moved into the region between the 6th and 8th centuries ce.

"Pathans, or Pashtuns, are the only people in the world whose probable descent from the lost tribes of Israel finds mention in a number of texts from the 10th century to the present day, written by Jewish, Christian and Muslim scholars alike, both religious as well as secularists," Aafreedi said.

A closely related group is the Samaritans, who claim descent from the Israelite tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, while according to the Bible their origin is in the people brought to Israel by the Neo-Assyrian Empire and some Cohanim (Jewish priests) who taught them how to worship the "native God".

In the northern Deccan the decline of the Later Calukyas brought about the rise of their feudatories, among them the Yadava dynasty (also claiming descent from the Yadu tribe) based at Devagiri (Daulatabad), whose kingdom (Seunadesha) included the broad swaths of what is now Maharashtra state.

Finally, it is crucial that the state and affected towns scrutinize two particular aspects of the Shinnecock's application: whether the tribe's current membership can document descent from the historic Shinnecock tribe, and whether the current Shinnecock group can demonstrate uninterrupted political autonomy going back to the tribe's first contact with Europeans.

They claim descent from the Bedouin Arab tribes of the Banū Hilāl and the Banū Sulaym, who are said to have invaded the Maghrib in the 11th century.

He describes the varied peoples of Qinghai: those of Han Chinese, Mongolian and (a glance at Chodrak) Tibetan descent, as well as indigenous tribes such as the Tu (whose language is related to Mongolian but whose customs are similar to Tibetans') and the Sala who are Muslim.

The allele ADH1 B 3 is only found in those of African descent and certain Native American tribes.