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chieftain

the head or leader of a tribe or clan

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The narrative in The Ruhela Chieftaincies is clearly a work of considerable energy and scholarship.

The Ruhela Chieftaincies: The Rise and Fall of Ruhela Power in India in the Eighteenth Century

However, chieftaincies will die if internal squabbling occurs during the appointment of new members.

Feature: South Sudan's Kings and Chiefs in the courts of Ghana

Until the emergence of the first Kanak graduates in the 1960s, the language learnt 'in the run' seems to have been a central foundation of Kanak influence in the context of the administrative chieftaincies and, after 1946, in the political structure of the municipality.

In the long 'run': Kanak Stockmen, the cattle frontier and colonial power relations in New Caledonia, 1870-1988

It is not to keep pampering the hereditary chieftaincies but giving a massive pushup to ordinary Baloch folks.

Real Baloch issue

What difference does it make when it is said at an international court that Abyei Area belongs to the Nine Ngok Dinka Chieftaincies when it was already known at the traditional local courts that the Area belonged to them, given the history of their ancestors and how they became the best brothers and sisters to the nomadic Misseriya Arab tribe in that bridging territory between the North and South of the Sudan?

Foreign arbitration over Abyei was needless

Even if the hierarchs somehow establish contact with the TTP chieftaincies and bowing to their diktats strike a peace deal with them, the deal would certainly neither hold nor abided by all the gangs.