The Antes had evolved into a powerful tribal unit.

Every tribal unit had its leader called Arifs.

Sepoo and Pirri were the master hunters, the oldest male members of the small tribal unit.

Without supernatural sanctions to restrain them, men might never have cooperated in anything larger than tribal units.

These may be referred to as hearths or households which make up the larger tribal unit.

After the holocaust, Sadar-es had stayed with his people until they formed themselves into the eight tribal units that survived to the present.

The kidding had been an important social lubricant between the different tribal units thrust into working together.

Since the 17th century they have not existed as a tribal or cultural unit.

They organized first into tribal units, and then combined into larger political structures.

Termination, a policy of the Eisenhower era, paid Indians to dissolve their tribal units.