tribal
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The film comes from Nagaland, a mountainous state of fewer than two million people on India's northeastern frontier, and is in Konyak, a tribal language unfamiliar to most Indians, never mind audiences abroad.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Dozens of lawsuits, which include complaints by tribal nations’ governments, are moving through state and federal courts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Thompson, deputy secretary for tribal affairs at the California Natural Resources Agency.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Anthropologists have documented the Gogodala people of western Papua New Guinea singing Hebrew songs and hoisting the flag of Israel at tribal ceremonies.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Autonomous tribal towns made decisions about trade and relations with other groups, but in some political and social matters, the towns worked together as a confederacy to make decisions that affected all of their members.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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