kinfolk
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All skinfolk ain’t kinfolk, and if he wasn’t aware before the protest, he certainly is now.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2026
Cozzens also takes an admirably nuanced approach to the Muscogee, Cherokee and Choctaw, who assisted Jackson over their Red Stick kinfolk, a detail that further complicates simplistic renderings of Indigenous-White relations.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023
The story line in “Shucked” is partly a corollary to the real-life relationship between Horn’s Yankee family and his husband’s Southern kinfolk.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
Tom Hanks plays a former Confederate Army officer tasked with shepherding an orphaned girl across Texas to her surviving kinfolk in the 2020 western “News of the World.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2021
Thinking about the kinfolk health histories was the only time I found comfort in being adopted.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Vocabulary lists containing kinfolk
The Classical Period, c. 600 BCE to c. 600 CE
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2.1: Classical Empires in East Asia (Sources 1–8)
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The Only Black Girls in Town
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