out of curiosity.... whats the name of your tribe anyway so the rest of us can camp around you for the lulz.
Btw, you kind of seem to not even know what youre talking about. Tribes & Homesteads dont take up anywhere near the same amount of land.
In order to place your tribe somewhere you need a certain amount of land cleared around you for future exapnding. If that spac eisnt clear, you cant place your totem. The actual useable (terraforming, etc) land you can use though is based on the # of member sin your tribe, which will eventually expand out to the maximum of that area you needed clear to plant your totem there.
Homesteads, AFAIK, dont change/expand. And tribes cant have any homestead within a certain radius of their totem, wether theyre big enough to use all that land or not. Youre doing nothing but hurting yourself with your little plan of splitting your own members up into individual homesteads to take over more land. Claiming that land for your homestead wont ever allow you to take it back for your tribe, because the maximum land space for your tribe is already claimed the second you put your totem down.