Sentence examples for eastern tribes from inspiring English sources

He said eastern tribes like the Paugussetts are at a disadvantage proving their genealogy.

"They were saying they were the Eastern tribes who were protesting, but it's not true," Mr. Presutti said.

If Tripoli had been taken only by the long-suppressed eastern tribes, there would have been more potential for continuing civil war.

After 1850, however, disputed succession led to civil war, and the kingdom was finally destroyed about 1890 by attacks from eastern tribes.

The eastern tribes, including the Nez Percé, Palouse, Cayuse, and Umatilla, were heavily influenced by the Plains Indians with whom they traded on seasonal journeys across the Rockies.

Their western tribes include the Cūtiyā, Plains Kachārī, Rābhā, Gāro, Mech, Koch, Dhimāl, and Jaijong; the eastern tribes include the Dimasa (or Hill Kachārī), Galong (or Gallong), Hojai, Lalung, Tippera, and Moran.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs granted federal recognition today to the Eastern Pequot and Paucatuck Eastern Pequot tribes, a determination that will give tribe members access to an array of new government benefits as well as economic opportunities including the possibility of casino gambling.

The Eastern Woodlands tribes fall into three divisions: the Southeast (discussed above) and the Great Lakes and Northeast.

In 1237 the Mongols penetrated for the second time into Kipchak territory and killed Bachman, the khan of the eastern Kipchak tribes.

Mr. Blumenthal, left, said the decision to recognize the Paucatuck Eastern Pequot and Eastern Pequot tribes was tainted by a conflict of interest by Kevin Gover, the director of the bureau and a former lawyer for the Golden Hill Paugussett tribe.

The eastern steppe tribes' movements to the west not only ended the threat to Delhi from the rival Turks in Ghazna and Ghūr but also forced a number of the Central Asian Muslims to migrate to northern India, a land that came to be known as Hindustan.