tribe
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“Our tribes are trying to become self-sufficient, and without some type of economic engine we’re not going to,” says Greg Encelewski, a leader of the Ninilchik, a local tribe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
"My mom's side has always been involved with the Muscogee tribe and traditions and I've grown up around it," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
This fog-shrouded patch of coastal forest in the heart of Yurok Country was tended by the tribe for millennia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The 40-year Treasury-bond bull market rested on three supports, and almost nobody explains all three, because each belongs to a different tribe of economists.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
This tribe will build their longhouses on the land of the Powhatan.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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Bare rode Rebel across property still full of arrowheads left behind by Cherokee and Shawnee tribes, hundreds of acres of Huddleston family farmland that started with a single purchase in 1848.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
She worries about other constituencies—rural communities and Native American tribes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Bears Ears, which covers 1.35 million acres, was proclaimed in 2016 under then-president Barack Obama on the basis of its cultural sites sacred to Indigenous tribes.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Leaders of nearby tribes have also objected to Cadiz’s plans to pump from the desert aquifer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Chief Powhatan ordered his tribes to stop trading with the settlers at James Town.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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