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Quotes About Tribes

Yes, novel and untried," said Deaver. He took up his knife and fork. "So they have given the most warlike tribes on the plains into the hands of Quakers. The most warlike and the least known. How interesting life is. How strange." He ate a large bite of his steak. "How peculiar are the ways of government.
~ Paulette Jiles
beyond beginnings the earth her many tribes and clans their life songs merge into one chant- - And to each creation the heartline trail is etched in delicate memory pattern webs so intricate in a unity of day into night the seasons follow
~ Unknown
The Army and Navy Journal labeled the latest raids simply "one more chapter in the old volume," the result of alternately feeding and fighting the tribes. "We go to them Janus-faced. One of our hands holds the rifle and the other the peace-pipe, and we blaze away with both instruments at the same time. The chief consequence is a great smoke—and there it ends.
~ Unknown
The Lakotas in turn divided into seven tribes: the Oglalas, Brulés, Miniconjous, Two Kettles, Hunkpapas, Blackfeet, and Sans Arcs, of which the Oglalas and the Brulés were the largest. In fact, these two tribes alone outnumbered all the non-Lakota Indians on the northern plains.
~ Unknown
Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography.
~ Peter Guber
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
~ Genesis 10:2
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
~ Genesis 10:7
the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.
~ Genesis 10:14
the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
~ Genesis 10:16
the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
~ Genesis 10:17
the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,
~ Genesis 10:18
And Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
~ Genesis 10:26
In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
~ Genesis 14:5
the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
~ Genesis 15:19
Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
~ Genesis 15:20
Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
~ Genesis 15:21
Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were the Asshurites, the Letushites, and the Leummites.
~ Genesis 25:3
Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
~ Genesis 25:14
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
~ Genesis 25:15
These were the sons of Ishmael, and these were their names by their villages and encampments—twelve princes of their tribes.
~ Genesis 25:16
The sons of Leah were Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
~ Genesis 35:23
The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
~ Genesis 35:24
The sons of Rachelís maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.
~ Genesis 35:25
The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.
~ Genesis 36:11