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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 347397, member: 2844&quot;]I can understand that. Native American tribes are usually called nations now. The term tribal affiliation seem to have stayed for some reason.</p><p>Many Native Americans don&#039;t mind the word tribe, though, and use it with pride.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tribes were originally Roman patrician groups, but the term developed into meaning social groups that are not organized as states.</p><p>I have had a rant about the indiscriminate use of the word tribal for anything non-Western before, so I won&#039;t bother you again. That&#039;s a whole other matter anyway. (But I still hate it.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie78" alt=":rage:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie78" alt=":rage:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie78" alt=":rage:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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