The Igdalen do not form a single political or tribal group, but factions are through recent history attached to at least two aristocratic Tuareg tribes.

Bruce Sterling used a fictionalised Tuareg tribe in his novel Islands in the Net.

Ait-Awari are a Tuareg tribe probably originating from northern Berber peoples who emigrated southwards centuries ago.

Ultimately, the ironclad is located, minus the gold which had been located and removed decades earlier by tribesmen of the Tuareg tribe.

In those hills and beyond lived, by Western standards, barbarian tribes, Berbers, and some members of the Tuareg tribe if you went far enough.

You might be able to pick up some more current information as to what conditions prevail among the Tuareg tribes.

Bou-Mezrag took refuge at Maadid, and later managed to escape the French finding allies among the Tuareg tribes of the South.

In the early 1990s the army was sent to the north to quell a rebellion by nomadic Tuareg tribes over land, cultural and linguistic rights.

During the remainder of the 18th century, various Tuareg tribes, Bambara and Kounta briefly occupied or besieged the city.

The Tuareg tribe in the south was said to have answered a call by the larger Warfalla tribe to take part in the protests.