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We respect the history, beliefs, and culture of our neighbors and local communities, we continue to create relationships with Native American Tribes and work to identify mutually beneficial partnership opportunities.

Rio Tinto

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The war was always going to end in a peace agreement of some kind. The real question was over the terms of the agreement, the Taliban-aligned tribes have the upper hand in these talks, and the U.S. appears willing to compromise on anything to end our role in the war.

Jason Amerine

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

There's this whole Norman Rockwell fantasy of what Thanksgiving was about, that it was this huge celebration between the first settlers and the tribes that sat down and talked, and that really wasn't the case.

Cedric Cromwell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I just wasn't able to communicate with people the way I wanted to, and being in Lagos you hear so many different languages and so many different tribes, but the one we all speak is pidgin.... I think more people will be able to understand the opera and feel less intimidated ...because I think opera is for everyone.

Helen Epega

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We have to recognize that we imposed a genocide on tribes and we imposed harsh measures toward any government structure that they had, to me, it's not surprising that it would take somewhat deep into the self-determination era for tribes to be in a position to assert some of these rights.

Ezra Rosser

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We were kind of losing that dream for a better way to be on the planet. So for me, it was kind of a last-ditch effort to see that if we took the tribes out of the daily grind and the cities and came out to nature, with us in charge, we could actually make it work amongst ourselves.

Michael Lang

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's weird they don't have a better process for thinning the herd, have 30 years of reality TV taught the Democrats nothing ? You can't go from 20 candidates right to one. First you have to put them on an island and separate them into tribes.

Jimmy Kimmel

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Generally speaking, all indigenous people have a great deal of respect for women because they are decision-makers, they organize the community, educate the children and deal with all important matters. The title of chief was invented by our society, not the tribes.

Marilin Rehnfeld

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Even as archaeologists are making exciting new discoveries about this region – and even as Tribes and the American public speak out in overwhelming support of protecting this precious landscape – Chaco is being threatened by expanding energy development, including recently proposed leasing inside this long-standing buffer zone.

Tom Udall

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

As Senator Warren has said American Indian is not a citizen of any tribe and only tribes determine tribal citizenship. American Indian is sorry that American Indian was not more mindful of this earlier in American Indian career.

Kristen Orthman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

A number of Germanic tribes have variations of this hairstyle.

Oscar Nilsson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

When a place gets so tribal that the two tribes won't have anything to do with each other... that jealousy turns into hate, and we saw what happened to the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda, it turned into a genocide. A million-people hacked to death within a few months. And we have got to watch what's happening here.

Bill Nelson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Syria’s territorial integrity should be safeguarded and all tribes and groups, as one society, should start the reconstruction process, and the refugees should return to their homes.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Cannabis has been used as an aphrodisiac in many cultures for centuries. In India, it was used as far back as the seventh century. Its use for sexual health was documented in Chinese texts, amongst Germanic tribes and by many African cultures.

Peter Barsoom

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Native American did bring up that whole issue about that( Pocahontas) label, and my advice to Native American -- and I used an example -- is that in Indian country, Native American tribes are very community-oriented, native American tribes are those types of people where Native American tribes will embrace you as part of Native American tribes community and then Native American tribes will recognize you as Native American tribes community from there on.

Melanie Benjamin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

These attacks will stabilize the Syrian government... and unite the different tribes in Syria as Syrians become aware of their honor and come to the defense of the independence, territorial integrity and the government of their country.

Hossein Sheikholeslam

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

You can't really shoot there, there are 62 uncontacted tribes, and they will have your head. And even if they wouldn't have your head, if you had a common cold, for example, and you shook their hand and gave them it, they would die. They have no resistance to a lot of the diseases we have.

James Gray

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Our country needs Federalism so that there will be devolution of power, and no other tribes will live at the expense of other.

Riek Machar

added by anonymous
7 years ago

These extraordinary images are further proof of the existence of still more uncontacted tribes, they’re not savages but complex and contemporary societies whose rights must be respected.

Survival International

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Because the law is so deferential to tribal authority, it elevates tribal authority to the same level as biological parents, the law gives Indian tribes jurisdiction and violates the most basic principles of due process.

Timothy Sandefur

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

You’ll be dealing with terrorists, you’ll be dealing with hybrid armies, you’ll be dealing with little green men, you’ll be dealing with tribes, you’re going to be dealing with it all, and you’re going to be dealing with it simultaneously.

Staff Gen. Mark Milley

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Now there must be another (attempt), otherwise the House of Representatives loses importance, there is a considerable movement within the municipalities, many House of Representatives members, but also within the tribes. They really want to have progress now.

Martin Kobler

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The way that Africa is divided now as countries doesn't reflect the reality of the tribes and the geographic and social organizations and countries, to see behind the mask is not just seeing the people behind the masks, (it's) seeing Africa differently.

Photographer Selim Harbi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

As frustration grows, there will be voices urging us to fall back into tribes, to scapegoat fellow citizens who don't look like us, or pray like us, or vote like we do, or share the same background, we can't afford to go down that path. It won't deliver the economy we want, or the security we want, but most of all, it contradicts everything that makes us the envy of the world.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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