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Example sentences for "other tribes"

  • However, a glance at them is quite sufficient to show the difference between them and Ainu of other tribes.

  • Women were tattooed on their lips and arms, but less extensively than are those of other tribes, and the tattooing was not so accurately done.

  • At Poronai, which consisted of only eight huts, the Ainu had adopted an architecture for their storehouses different to that of other tribes.

  • Thirty-four Indian families from one tribe in Pembina are reported by the agent as demanding their allocation of farms; the chiefs and headmen of other tribes are in negotiation for farming implements, stock, etc.

  • They dare not go out to hunt for fear of other tribes, and they would all starve to death.

  • Other tribes in the Upper Missouri region were so troublesome and aggressive that the peaceable Poncas were left to shift for themselves as they best could amidst all the warring and warring interests by which they were surrounded.

  • Other tribes of natives give an account of a serpent of immense size, and inhabiting high rocky mountains, which, they say, produced creation by a blow of his tail.

  • The Kyganies 'consider themselves more civilised than the other tribes, whom they regard with feelings of contempt.

  • The tribe of the wolf are called Coquontans, and have many privileges over the other tribes.

  • They make canoes for sale to other tribes.

  • Pregnant women and their husbands are subject to restrictions similar to those already described in regard to other tribes.

  • Members of this tribe are not so fine-looking as those of other tribes on the Mahakam, with the exception of the Saputans.

  • Restrictions imposed during pregnancy do not differ from those of other tribes described.

  • The belief about disease and its cure is identical with that of other tribes I have met.

  • Lastly, in other tribes there is a prosternal elevation both before and behind the arms, as in Cerambyx thoracicus, dimidiatus, and affinities.

  • This is particularly observable in those of Coleopterous insects, but it is very commonly in other tribes of the same hue.

  • I was always present at tribal and war councils, and also had some authority over other tribes.

  • The words of the songs were usually composed by the clan's own poet, who made a living solely by his profession, and even sold his effusions to other tribes.

  • It is probable that, in accordance with the general system in other tribes, each clan had formerly certain hereditary duties and privileges, but no trace of these now remains.

  • By article 26 "the United States guarantee to the Cherokees the quiet and peaceable possession of their country and protection against domestic feuds and insurrection as well as hostilities of other tribes.

  • In California, and among the Haida and perhaps other tribes of the northwest coast, the value of certain hunting and fishing claims led to their definition by artificial boundaries, as by sticks or stones.

  • Again, tribes driven from their ancestral homes often retreated to lands previously occupied by other tribes, and intertribal wars resulted therefrom.

  • One half of the Nez Perces and all the other tribes, except a very few persons, are unmistakably hostile in feeling.

  • The Nez Perce reservation contained five thousand square miles, including mountain and forest as well as good land, and provision was made for moving other tribes upon it.

  • They found their relatives, the Foxes, upon Green Bay, but so far reduced in numbers, by the attacks of other tribes, that they were no longer able to sustain themselves as an independent people.

  • In some tribes to the east of the Rocky Mountains this change of name lasted only during the season of mourning, but in other tribes on the Pacific Coast of North America it seems to have been permanent.

  • So with the other animals allotted to the sexes respectively in other tribes.

  • The uncles of these girls had their eyes on the property and perhaps feared that their sons had not found favor in the eyes of their cousins, as they might have seen and admired some fine looking young men from other tribes.

  • With her counsel in the cabinet, the people might have enjoyed peace and prosperity, cultivating the arts and sciences, instead of making war on other tribes, and burning offerings to their gods.

  • The Mascoutins, Fire Nation, or Nation of the Prairie, are extinct or merged in other tribes.

  • Some of the early travellers, both among the Illinois and among other tribes, where the same practice prevailed, mistook them for hermaphrodites.

  • They are still (1868) in use among the Sioux and some other tribes.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "other tribes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ignis fatuus; other agencies; other beasts; other commodities; other duties; other employments; other factors; other gentlemen; other governments; other hand; other insects; other mammals; other matters; other minds; other orders; other portions; other power; other products; other respects; other rocks; other sections; other spirits; other trees; other work; otherwise than; with instructions