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Definition of Tribes
1. tribe [n] - See also: tribe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tribes
Literary usage of Tribes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The dispossessed Huron tribes were sedentary, only leaving their villages and
... But in 1626 these Iroquois tribes were at war with the Mohegan who had a ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The timber tribes generally smoked the skin, a process unknown on the Jicarilla,
and Piute were noted for beauty of design and execution, but the Porno and ..."
3. The History of Rome by Wilhelm Ihne (1871)
"The patricians and the comitia of tribes. tribuneship nevertheless remained, and
the tribunes directed less attention to the protection of the civil rights ..."
4. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1863)
"Gradual Disappearance of the Native tribes. — Manner in which it takes place.
... NONE of the Indian tribes which formerly inhabited the territory of New ..."
5. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"THE REORGANIZED SCHOOLS IN THE FIVE tribes ADDRESS OF MR. JB BROWN The problem
in the Five tribes Schools was rather a complicated one. ..."
6. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve, Francis Bowen, Daniel Coit Gilman (1898)
"Gradual Disappearance of the Native tribes. — Manner in which it takes place.
... NONE of the Indian tribes which formerly inhabited the territory of New ..."
7. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1827)
"As the ancient, or as new tribes successively present themselves in the series
of this ... The German tribes were voluntary and fluctuating associations of ..."
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