He was raised by his grandmother in traditional tribal ways, and as a child he spoke only Yupik.

And this newly claimed knowledge confirmed each man in the Tightness of his own racial or tribal or religious ways.

The outside world never seemed to quite get the Rigases, which reinforced their tribal ways.

The township was a confusion of tribal ways and city manners, impersonal and often violent.

At the same time, many young Indians began to turn to their elders to learn tribal ways, including traditional dress and spiritual practices.

"We can't stay with the old tribal ways," Faizah went on.

She said she had "rezoned" herself to get used to less privacy and to abide by the capital's tribal ways.

Her people were dispersed over wide areas, with no werowance to remind them of tribal ways.

Under centuries of Roman rule also tribal ways were maintained.

Theirs was a tribal and family way of living from day to day that incorporated religion on an "as needed" basis.