The city tribes were bound by skin color and outlook rather than the traditional affiliations, and dressed in a mixture of styles drawn from traditional garb, White clothing, mistaken reconstruction, and pure whimsy. They might be the new face of the Red man, as Ghost believed, or they might be a dead end, outcasts from the autonomous tribes of the Council lands. Whatever they were, this neighborhood was their home; they had made it relatively safe for their own members and any who acknowledged their dominance.