How to Use intertribal in a Sentence

intertribal

adjective
  • The intertribal warfare among chimpanzees is, first and foremost, a means of controlling resources.
    — Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Photos from the intertribal dance Saturday afternoon are in the gallery above.
    — oregonlive, 17 June 2023
  • How one of the first bits of dialogue, an exchange between Bear and Elora, is spoken in a kind of intertribal patois.
    — David Treuer, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2022
  • All five tribes of the intertribal coalition remember the last drought over a millennia ago because our ancestors saw it, and these stories are codified in our history.
    — Dr. Len Necefer, Outside Online, 29 June 2022
  • All five tribes of the intertribal coalition remember the last drought over a millennia ago, because our ancestors saw it, and these stories are codified in our history.
    — Dr. Len Necefer, Outside Online, 29 June 2022
  • Pow-wow dancers — including fancy dancers, jingle dancers and a hoop dancer — performed, followed by an intertribal dance and a circle dance around all of the children and youth, as a gesture of protection.
    — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 May 2022
  • Another seven brutal pages of intertribal bickering occur before the amtal rule is put into effect so Paul and Jamis can start swinging blades.
    — Max Evry, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
  • After the law passed, the tribes formed the intertribal repatriation committee with representatives from each of the Wabanaki tribes.
    — Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Mishoons were traditionally a means of transportation and intertribal exchange, and the 24/7 burns, which last up to two weeks, represent a sacred part of the mishoon-making process.
    — Brittany Bowker, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The Reservation Dogs writers’ room is profoundly intertribal.
    — David Treuer, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The festivities will include an intertribal contest powwow, tribal dancers and drum groups, food booths, arts and crafts booths, children’s activities and entertainment.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 July 2022
  • Priscella Hunter, the tribe’s former chairwoman, heads an intertribal council that manages more than 4,000 acres of land on the North Coast.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2022
  • Ownership of the hardscrabble land surrounding Big Mountain, called Black Mesa, had long been an unresolved intertribal treaty issue.
    — Randall Hyman, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Dec. 2021
  • In addition to Native arts and craft vendors, cultural exhibits, fry bread and other delicious food offerings, the intertribal dance routines are a show-stopping event drawing participants and spectators from across the region.
    — oregonlive, 17 June 2023
  • Rose Miron, a historian at the Newberry Library, said Chicago was an important site of trade and intertribal community long before white settlers arrived.
    — Maddie Ellis, Chicago Tribune, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Clark Tenakhongva, vice chairman of the Hopi Tribe and co-chair of the intertribal coalition, spoke about the ancestral connections the five tribes in the coalition share to the hundreds of thousands of cultural sites in southeast Utah.
    — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 July 2021
  • Those tribal governments and intertribal organizations represent about 85% of all tribal citizens, according to the court filing Tuesday.
    — Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Oakes’s dive and the 18-month occupation of Alcatraz signaled the beginning of the Red Power movement, a name that functioned as commentary on the intertribal nature of the organizations that made up the movement.
    — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 1 June 2020
  • Jackson’s life’s work has included pushing for land rights, language preservation, and environmental stewardship on an intertribal level both locally with the Hualapai and surrounding Southwestern tribes as well as nationally.
    — By krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 12 May 2023
  • Although Arizona lacks a similar intertribal organization, basketweavers from Arizona tribes have met with California weavers at conferences and gatherings to bring home information on how to avoid being poisoned by pesticides or pesticide runoff.
    — AZCentral.com, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Maori iwi leaders, including the Te Pou Tupua, or the human spokespersons for the Whanganui came to Phoenix to meet with Arizona tribal leaders in 2023 to continue the intertribal dialog on how best to protect and preserve water and the waterways that rivers sustain.
    — Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025

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