They are selected from New Caledonia's main cultural and traditional clans and confederations.

During his reign, tribal organization began to erode as provincial government officials allowed land to change hands outside the traditional clan and tribal limits.

The three traditional clans of Umueri are written down below with their corresponding Villages:

The power and prestige of the traditional clans has increased during the six-year uprising by the Palestinians.

Thus, Genghis Khan had no room for the traditional clan- and kindred-based divisions that were common in central Asian society.

He hails from a common and impoverished family, not the powerful traditional Lebanese clans that have been competing for power.

Today over 80% of the land is held by indigenous Fijians, under the collective ownership of the traditional Fijian clans.

The regional identity of Savonians, like that of the other traditional Finnish clans, is declining.

By the late 1960s, eighteen of the traditional clans survived.

Bjelopavlići is regarded one of the traditional Serb clans in Montenegro.