Groups that fall under the umbrella term "Mai Mai" include armed forces led by warlords, traditional tribal elders, village heads, and politically motivated resistance fighters.
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey was born and raised in Hawaii by traditional Hawaiian elders.
The emergent power structures were independent of the traditional tribal elders and limited their authority.
To achieve this state of oneness, global teens must sometimes be pitted against traditional elders who don't appreciate their radical taste in denim.
Ahmed Diriye Ali, spokesman of the Hawiye traditional elders.
According to Hussein, his decision was supported by the people of Mogadishu and by the city's traditional elders.
In 1993, a grand meeting was held between the town's traditional elders and the former Sultan Abdisalam.
The traditional elders led them to the Washington Monument, where the Pipe carried across the country was smoked.
Property and family law disputes and low-level criminal cases are heard by traditional elders' courts, which are loosely supervised by the prosecutor's office.
To Elaine Quiver, a Lakota Sioux who works with a society of traditional elders, the name dispute is simply a matter of mistranslation.