confederated

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While the proposed project site is just south of the Yakama Reservation, it is part of the confederated tribes’ vast ancestral homelands.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023

Gorbachev, who struggled to form even a loosely confederated union out of the fifteen Soviet republics, blamed Yeltsin and the leaders of Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Belarus for plotting illegally to dissolve the bloc.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 3, 2016

President Barack Obama has approved federal assistance for Okanogan County and the Colville confederated tribes to help repair or replace public infrastructure lost in this summer’s wildfires.

From Washington Times • Aug. 20, 2014

It was issued the year before the Constitutional Convention that would send the confederated former colonies into the epic called the United States of America. 

From Forbes • Aug. 18, 2014

Doubtless he also hoped that by diplomatic means or otherwise dissension might be sown between the confederated kings, and their alliance dissolved.

From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Larson, Laurence Marcellus