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Tasaday

American  
[tah-suh-dahy] / ˈtɑ səˌdaɪ /

noun

Tasadays, plural Tasaday plural
  1. a member of a very small group of forest-dwelling people of southern Mindanao.


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Tasaday, the 9-10 jolly in the fillies' race, managed to get beaten after being allowed a soft lead.

From The Guardian • Apr. 15, 2013

In The Gentle Tasaday, the story of these unspoiled aborigines is told for the first time with energy and detail by John Nance, an American reporter stationed in Manila.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Tasaday are unfamiliar with rice, taro, salt and sugar, have never eaten corn and, according to authorities, may be "the only people in the world today who do not know or use tobacco."

From Time Magazine Archive

He wanted not so much his old exhilarations of flight as peace for the blue whales and the primitive Tasaday of the Philippines.

From Time Magazine Archive

Numbering only about a hundred, the Tasaday live in families, consisting of mother, father, unmarried children and sometimes an orphan or childless widow.

From Time Magazine Archive

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