The former of these two falls into two great confederations, and into several unconfederate tribes.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
Alliances and confederations existed from earliest times, also the adoption of tribes and prisoners.
"The American Nations, Vol. I."
C. S. Rafinesque
And on all the plains of this great land, a land, verily, as large as all that over which the Tuareg confederations now roam, they were the greatest huntsmen, the greatest warriors.
"Border, Breed Nor Birth"
Dallas McCord Reynolds