tribes

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The division continues to enforce environmental laws, punish fraudsters and smugglers, honor our nation’s treaty and trust obligations to tribes, and defend federal agencies’ efforts to protect and develop responsibly our wildlife and natural resources.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2026

The casino has funded theater programs, youth writing intensives and revenue sharing with neighboring tribes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026

Anadol Studio’s active creative partnership with Google deepened after Refik’s own more recent stays in the Sacred Village, taking advantage of what Neven characterizes as “the ethnobotanical knowledge that Indigenous tribes still possess.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Though gone from the stomachs of people in the industrialised world, the bacteria has been detected among tribes in Africa and South America, Sarhan said.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

An assemblage of agricultural tribes from the area of East Africa now comprising Tanzania, Malawi, and Mozambique, the Somali Bantu had been persecuted for more than three hundred years.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John