How To Use Chieftainship In A Sentence
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It's relevant to note that the main Na'vi characters are voiced by four Black actors: Zoë Saldaña who plays the warrior princess Neytiri; CCH Pounder who plays Mo'at, the Na'vi priestess and Neytiri's mother; Laz Alonso who plays Tsu'Tey, the young warrior prince, Neytiri's betrothed and heir to the chieftainship of the Omaticayas, Neytiri's clan; and Peter Mensah who plays Akwey, leader of a plains clan of Na'vi; as well as Wes Studi,
The Avatar Movie from a Black perspective
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In Beckwourth's self-portrait, he amassed so many honors as a Crow warrior that he rose to a chieftainship, rich in wives and ponies, dauntless in battle, and venerated for his wisdom and leadership.
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Maories went wild with excitement when the Bishop presented first the Queen, then the Duke, with a korowai - a ceremonial cloak of fine flax fibre, with black tassles, signifying the highest order of chieftainship.
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In both capacities he actively opposed traditional institutions such as chieftainship, the ancestor cult, the practice of magic, polygyny and bridewealth, that kept tribesmen away from the church.
Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
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Through the ages trade has occurred between clans, tribal chieftainships, and kingdoms.
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Some kind of chieftainship seems coeval with the first advance from the state of separate wandering families to that of a nomadic tribe.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
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In no case did chieftainship give rise to a caste system.
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The Guarani were horticulturists organized in chieftainships based on extended kinship.
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Furthermore, instilling in these youth the state ideology would transform these "barbarians" into civilized subjects, who in turn would civilize their "barbarian" subjects, since many of these young students came from elite families and many would succeed leaderships within the native chieftainship.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
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In 1433, local people in Nan'an Department appealed to establish native chieftainship.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
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You know you are born for chieftainship, that is a hereditary right.
IOL: News
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It is very alarming that some Bantustan administrations have been given land for personal use under the pretext of so-called chieftainship whereas these leaders are historically and traditionally not chiefs.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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And how does it differ from sovereignty or chieftainship in practical terms (other than being easier to type)?
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This new institution of monarchy required the invention of a new legitimation of authority beyond the tribal justification of chieftainship based on concepts of kinship and responsibility.
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The first to reach the crag was a brawny brave whose eagle feather was stained scarlet as a token of chieftainship.
The Conquering Sword of Conan
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Also no chieftainship can clearly say that its lineage, either patrimonially, matrimonially or otherwise, has always had a dispute-free succession.
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The funeral feast, therefore, being a general custom throughout Scotland, was not, in the opinion of those who were to share it, unseemingly mingled, on the present occasion, with the festivities which hailed the succession to the chieftainship.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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All the few in whom yet lingered any shadow of retainership towards the fast-fading chieftainship of Glenwarlock, seemed to cherish the notion that the heir of the house had to be tended and cared for like a child -- that was what they were in the world for.
Warlock o' Glenwarlock
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I has become clear that these large claims involve issues such as chieftainship disputes and territorial expansion, even attempts to establish kingdoms lost through conquest.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Thus would I attain honor and chieftainship in the final abode of the dead, and thus would honor remain to my father, who was the Otter.
THE SICKNESS OF LONE CHIEF
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It splintered into hundreds of competing chieftainships, all led by infantes claiming descent from Afonso I, all variously cooperative or mercenary, and all dependent on the slave trade for their survival.
