During the spring and autumn hunting seasons they engaged in communal bison hunts and camped in tepees.
Like other Plateau peoples, however, they engaged in communal fishing, built great bark and dugout canoes, and acknowledged a supreme chief only when undertaking special expeditions.
In these and in many that do not, the males engage in communal, or lek-type, displays on a common courtship ground, such as the familiar strutting grounds of turkeys and many grouse.
Females derived the protective benefits of polyandry without actually having to expend the effort to carry it out.The authors suggest that socially mediated polyandry might apply to many more species that engage in communal care of the young, including a small percentage of mammals such as rodents.
Analysis of observation data suggests that blending this interactive game-based approach with traditional classroom delivery encouraged the teachers and students to engage in communal discussions and debriefing during and after game play.
The find, researchers say, suggests that during the advent of agriculture a pivotal turning point that prehistorians call the Neolithic Revolution early farmers may have come together first to engage in communal activities, and only later did they begin living together.
It is this suite that gives us the ability to pray, worship and engage in communal religious practices.
Dogs and cats that engage in communal grooming see petting as normal and a bonding experience.
"The key issue is this: the government has frankly failed to stare down the people who are inciting hatred, the people who are engaging in this communal violence … and that failure has set an example that impunity to attack Muslims is alive and well in Burma," said Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch.
As we saw in protests against a Muslim community organization in California this March and attempts to block the creation of New York's Park51 community center last summer, among others, Muslim communities have been repeatedly impeded from engaging in their ordinary communal functions.
