Exciting skirmish: a family versus a shovel. Who wins?
Only tribe members ("people") may fight in a skirmish, so the only player that is actually involved in the skirmish is the player that had the tribe member card.

However, since you need to win a skirmish by 2 (when playing with only two players), and the tribe members have 0 attack,  the outcome of the above example skirmish would be considered a draw and the contested card would go to the junk pile.