confederacy

Wahunsonacock, the leader of the Powhatan confederacy that dominated Chesapeake Bay, initially believed he could mold the English newcomers into a client state, and so tolerated their growing presence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

In the confederacy, Georgia enacted a similar 15-day grace period, while Florida law provided an extra 20 days.

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2026

Known as “Lament for Confederation,” it was a landmark moment in First Nations history, calling out the meaning of the confederacy and the impact of colonization on Indigenous peoples.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

But without some agreed-upon mechanism for determining whether such a violation has happened, there is effectively no difference between Radan’s version and the "mere confederacy during pleasure" Story describes.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2023

In Hunt’s wake the Patuxet community raged, as did the rest of the Wampanoag confederacy and the Nauset.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Among township societies such as the Iroquois, groups of towns joined to form political confederacies.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

There was talk that states might further align themselves into various geographical confederacies and suffer the obvious inefficiencies and jealousies inherent in such arrangements.

From Salon ● May 10, 2020

They also coalesced in larger confederacies when necessary; Europeans would know them as Creeks or Choctaws.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

Without Napoleon Europe could have remained some rough confederacies of fiefdoms, each forever squabbling, no unified Germany or Italy, Russia too big to succeed fractures into more manageable regions, etc.

From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2017

During the early years of the 19th century the Blackfoots were one of the strongest Indian confederacies of the north-west, numbering some 40,000.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various