In 1883, the merchant Franz Adolf Eduard Lüderitz entered into a contract with the native elders.

"Of all the native elders in Connecticut, we most admire Gladys for her knowledge" Ms. Richmond said.

In the same year (1920) ordination of the first native elders took place in Kikuyu.

If there were anything about this situation that might upset the native elders, she was in a better position to know than he.

Yet other native elders would say that "Naghalin" is a mispronunciation of the Cebuano word "naghaling" which means "making fire" as preparation for cooking.

When the Phoenix Line moved in on the planet, they used the father and daughter team as liaison officers between Head of Command and the native elders.

Rather than blindly accepting the friars' choice, the indigenous leadership found a means to assimilate the decision through the revelatory dreams of native elders in much the same way they had selected patron deities during the preColumbian period.

In this village of caribou hunters, where melting permafrost is causing some houses to tilt, scientists who are using satellite and submarine data are confirming what native elders have been saying all along.

These native elders became so well known they were celebrated in the street ballads of the time.

Perhaps some native elders have decided to keep these areas hidden or secret to avoid the possible destruction or altering of sacred sites and memories.