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tribespeople

American  
[trahybz-pee-puhl] / ˈtraɪbzˌpi pəl /

plural noun

  1. the members of a tribe.


Etymology

Origin of tribespeople

First recorded in 1885–90; tribe + 's 1 + people

Example Sentences

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Some 90 families, mostly tribespeople, live in Piplodi.

From BBC

At a time when it was unthinkable for a woman to travel too far away from home, Irawati went on field trips to remote villages in India after returning to the country, sometimes with her male colleagues, at other times with her students and even her children, to study the lives of various tribespeople.

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To help support his family, he initially collected mahua flowers, which are used to make a liquor popular among tribespeople, and later worked in a garage.

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This has caused problems for those who need to go to hospital for medical treatment and nomadic tribespeople who need to roam across pastures with their herds, he said.

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But Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav in August had said that the project “will not disturb or displace” tribespeople and that it had received environmental clearances based on the “rigour of environmental scrutiny and after incorporating consequent safeguards”.

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