The Rhode Island legislature passed a "detribalization" law in 1880.

Although they lost control of much of their tribal lands during the state's late 19th century detribalization, the Narragansett kept a group identity.

The resistance was because conversion was an individual act, leading to detribalization and integration into the Muslim community going against the socially acceptable communal life.

As part of this detribalization, the state transformed the remains of Fort Ninigret into a monument to the now 'vanished' tribe.

Quichua speakers (sometimes referred to as the Yumbos) grew out of the detribalization of members of many different groups after the Spanish conquest.

According to historian John Ruedy, these factions, or "clans" did not embody "family or regional loyalties, as in the Arab East, because the generations-long detribalization of Algeria had been too thorough.

In many of the paper's editorials, Princess Red Wing invokes the Narragansett people's pride, often in reply to claims against their ancestry and purity during their detribalization by the state of Rhode Island in the 1880s.