Hundreds of years ago, the area that is now Wailua River State Park was a major power center for the Hawaiian chiefdoms that lived there. Their legacy can still be seen in the park's four heiaus ...

A social-cultural organisation called the Gongola People’s Forum has commended Governor Ahmadu Fintiri for the creation of new chiefdoms and emirates, as well as the appointment of chiefs and emirs.

The Adamawa State Government has announced the creation of new emirates and five chiefdoms, thus putting to rest months of speculations over the move. Arewa PUNCH reports that the Adamawa State ...

and if these relationships vary between highly complex chiefdom societies (e.g., Hawaii, Societies) and smaller scale "simple" chiefdom societies (e.g., Pitcairn). The project targets comparative ...