The official tribal designation is 'Te Iwi o Ngā Ariki Kaipūtahi'.

Gray Cloud was not sure of the particular tribal designation, but that was all right; any man from his region of the world was a friend, here.

That is their tribal designation, anyway.

At one time or another tribal designations and place names have also been used as self-designations, for instance manjagir, birachen, solon, etc.

They are Sunni Muslims, speak dialects of the Persian language close to Dari, and refer to themselves with tribal designations.

It has served as a semi-official tribal designation ever since.

He asked what business I had with the Shi-is that a personal name, or a tribal designation?

However, there is no clear evidence that this document actually represents the language of Akokisa (Béranger provides a tribal designation for the vocabulary).

Instead, he was informed that using the tribal designations like Shinnecocks or Montauketts, names derived from geographic places the people inhabited, would be the way to go.

In fact "Korubo" is a degrading, negative label given by a former enemy tribe and later adopted as a tribal designation by the outside world.