tribespeople
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of tribespeople
Example Sentences
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She urged “all tribespeople and villagers” to cooperate with the military and law enforcement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
Some 90 families, mostly tribespeople, live in Piplodi.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025
Sometimes the attendees’ feedback could be “a shock to the curatorial ego,” Frost said, giving the example of a 2017 exhibition on the Scythians, nomadic tribespeople from Siberia.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
Germany apologised in 2021 for the slaughter of about 75,000 tribespeople in Namibia, in southern Africa, described the massacre as a genocide and agreed to fund projects there worth over a billion euros.
From Reuters ● Oct. 31, 2023
While nomads and tribespeople occasionally defeat organized governments and religions, the trend over the past 13,000 years has been for the nomads and tribespeople to lose.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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