tribe
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Tayaba’s tribe has opposed the Newsom administration’s push to build the Delta Conveyance Project, a 45-mile tunnel that would transport water beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The product is the tribe; the order is the performance; the smoothie shop is a clubhouse.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
"They've been here in a foreign land for more than a century," Dr Vihuto Asumi, President of the Sumî Hoho Naga tribe, said of the remains.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Zooid’s Mr. Davila, an original member of that ensemble, told me Mr. Threadgill’s music has established an ever-expanding, modern-day tribe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
More troubling, her face couldn’t be painted to signal her tribe and clan—a tradition at Osage funerals.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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The Colorado River provides water for about 35 million people in cities from Denver to San Diego, as well as 30 Native tribes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
It is one of around 40 similar suits brought by cities, states, tribes and other local jurisdictions, modeled on successful litigation against tobacco and opioid producers.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
They are both only too happy to emphasise it with their messages, retro or not, designed to show the true souls of their tribes.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Army, which saw the animal’s demise as a means of forcing Plains tribes onto reservations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The outcome was that musket technology had spread throughout the whole of New Zealand by 1833: all surviving Maori tribes now had muskets.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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