The Kwakiutl recognized one social unit larger than the tribe--the confederacy, which was a cluster of loosely knit, informally related neighboring tribes who interacted with themselves more often than between other tribes.

• Atribes who interacted with themselves more often than between  
• Btribes who interacted among each other more often than among  
• Ctribes who interacted with one another more often than with  
• Dtribes, interacting among each other more often than between  
• Etribes, interacting among one another more often than with