Are you talking about the word tribe?

“While they make their best effort to represent everybody against every other and the same enemy, tribe makes no difference “”. A tribe is basically an organization that consists of many clans.

The barbarians of Icewind Dale were all a large group that lived in the harsh wastes in the north of The Forgotten Realms. What was the importance of each type of tribe’s name in the history of the Americas? Which tribe was distinct from each other?

They were still members of the Larger tribe, just lived in their own clan and took orders from the leader of their tribe.