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tribe

[trahyb] / traɪb /


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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

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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