nontribal
Not clan-based
Nontribal describes people, lands, or institutions not belonging to or affiliated with a tribe, particularly Native American tribes.
The term appears frequently in legal and administrative contexts distinguishing tribal from nontribal jurisdiction: nontribal members, nontribal lands.
The casino employs both tribal and nontribal workers.
Dominant cultural current
- secularNonreligious, worldly
- civicPertaining to community affairs
- nationalOf a country
- stateCondition or mode
governmental · institutional · municipal · colonial · settler · westernized · assimilated · urbanized
Free from external control
- nonalignedNot allied with superpowers
- neutralNot favoring any side
- unassociatedNot connected or linked
- detachedApart or uninvolved
uninvolved · uncommitted · nonpartisan · disengaged · unconnected · autonomous · apolitical · sovereign
One separate human being
- personalRelating to one's self
- autonomousSelf-directed and free
- self-reliantAble to provide independently
- independentFree from external control
singular · private · solitary · nuclear · atomized · decentralized · separate · dispersed
mainstream
Dominant cultural current
state · governmental · institutional · municipal · colonial · settler · westernized · assimilated · urbanized · centralized
independent
Free from external control
- nonalignedNot allied with superpowers
- neutralNot favoring any side
- unassociatedNot connected or linked
detached · uninvolved · uncommitted · nonpartisan · disengaged · unconnected · autonomous · apolitical · sovereign · nonmember
individual
One separate human being
- personalRelating to one's self
- autonomousSelf-directed and free
- self-reliantAble to provide independently
independent · singular · private · solitary · nuclear · atomized · decentralized · separate · dispersed · fragmented
nontribaltribal
Of a clan
communal · tribalistic · indigenous · ethnic · ancestral
tribe, tribal, tribes, tribalism, tribally, subtribe, tribalistic, tribalist