1.   All were awaiting a meeting of family members and tribal elders on the matter.

2.   Apparently in recent days he organized a meeting of tribal elders, and during the session he was attacked, his brother said.

3.   Ariwite and some tribal elders are trying to use the momentum of the bicentennial to gain tribal status and land to return north.

4.   As the tribal elders pounded drums and danced in a circle, they presented Esther Thompson with a necklace made of apple seeds.

5.   At a meeting with tribal elders this week, he ordered them to surrender al-Qaida members.

6.   At night, the youngsters would gather around the tribal elders and listen attentively to the stories of past exoduses and battles.

7.   At the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana, tribal elders say they cannot remember such a concentration of snakes at ever-more-shallow water holes.

8.   A dozen tribal elders lined up outside his door to pay their respects.

9.   Afghanistan is a land where people hold allegiance not to institutions but to one of the dozens, if not hundreds, of warlords or tribal elders.

10.   After deciphering the totem pole that relates the story of Kispiox, Weget, the tribal elder, accompanied visitors to the village cemetery.