warrior society
Armed cultural group
A warrior society is a culture or community organized primarily around military values, combat skills, and martial honor.
Such societies typically accord highest status to fighters and structure social life around warfare, raiding, or defense.
The term describes historical cultures like the Spartans, Comanche, or samurai-era Japan, but also appears in anthropological and fantasy contexts.
Within some Native American tribes, warrior societies were specific organizations of proven fighters with ceremonial and protective duties.
- braveryBoldness before danger
- counting coupPlains warrior glory-touch
- CheyennePlains tribe or state capital
- brotherhoodsCommunities of mutual loyalty
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
blood · berserker · loyalty · band of brothers · chief · tribes · war party · swordsmanship · battle honors · discipline · rite of passage · orders · councils · duty · rites of passage · Plains Indians · eagle feathers · ranks
- Plains IndiansSioux, Lakota, Cheyenne, Comanche, Blackfoot
- tribal culturetribe, clan mother, common ancestry, clan loyalty, elder council
- Blackfoot NationsBlackfeet, Treaty 7, sun dance, sacred pipe, pipe ceremony
- CheyenneNorthern Cheyenne, Morning Star, Ashland
- Iron Age EuropeHallstatt culture, Iron Age, Celts, Gauls, druids
- Native AmericansCherokee, Apache, Navajo, Sioux, Mohawk
warrior societyagrarian society
Culture organized around farming
monastic community · Amish community · hippie commune · commune · ivory tower
warrior societystanding army
Continuously maintained military force
regular army · conscript army · national guard · defense ministry · civilian population
warrior societymonastic order
Organized community of monks
intellectual elite · merchant class · scholarly tradition · artistic community · diplomatic corps