tribesman
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tribesmen
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While he was still playing professional football, Simpson appeared in the 1977 miniseries "Roots" as an African tribesman and hosted a 1978 episode of "Saturday Night Live."
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2024
Brazil's first indigenous congressman, the Xavante tribesman Mario Juruna, was elected in 1982.
From Reuters ● Sep. 24, 2022
Fort Pickett in Virginia would become Fort Barfoot after the “one-man army” Van T. Barfoot, a Choctaw tribesman and Medal of Honor recipient in the Italian campaign of World War II.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 6, 2022
Jack Letts left his home in Oxford at 18, married the daughter of a high-ranking tribesman in Iraq, and moved to Syria, jurors have heard.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2019
The tribesman who was searching the alchemist’s belongings found a small crystal flask filled with a liquid, and a yellow glass egg that was slightly larger than a chicken’s egg.
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
Iranian authorities had immediately urged local people and tribesmen to join security forces in searching for the airman last Friday, realising the potential political and military value of capturing him alive.
From Barron's ● Apr. 5, 2026
The next year, he and some of his tribesmen joined the SDF determined to exact revenge and regain control of their tribal lands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
In Millie’s case, it’s Henry Lewis, a game tracker respected — even feared — by poachers and tribesmen alike.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
“The children especially have faced difficulties, lack of education, and disconnection from society for five years,” he explained, sitting in a room with other tribesmen with a set of prayer beads in one hand.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
There were oases throughout the desert, but the tribesmen fought in the desert, leaving the oases as places of refuge.
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
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