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  • Their “home cooking” when the Anglos arrived was whatever the local tribesfolk and Spanish and Mexican colonialists were doing, and most of it was pretty good.

    Think Progress » Only One Republican Federal Lawmaker Has Spoken Out Against Arizona’s Draconian Immigration Law 2010

  • The Gwurran hesitated, aware that his fellow tribesfolk were following with great interest the confrontation being played out below.

    The Cat is a Metaphor 2010

  • Somewhere - I believe it's in my celebrated work, Dawns and Departures of a Soldier's Life - I've written a good deal about that valley, and the customs and manners of the tribesfolk, and what a little Paradise it seemed after what I'd been through.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • Many of my tribesfolk are coming, so it should be a blast.

    Archive 2006-05-01 mike247worldwide 2006

  • Many of my tribesfolk are coming, so it should be a blast.

    Hello From Montreal! mike247worldwide 2006

  • I subsequently learnt that although the Fans will eat their fellow friendly tribesfolk, yet they like to keep a little something belonging to them as a memento.

    Travels in West Africa 2003

  • The hush deepened, though here and there she glimpsed more tribesfolk.

    Mercadian Masques Lebaron, Francis 1999

  • They were ordinary, working men and women, along with kids, students, dreamers -- and quite a few tribesfolk, I saw -- here because they'd decided for themselves that going to the stars was a great idea.

    Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

  • They looked no different from the other Cho-Arrim Orim had met, but the village tribesfolk surrounded them, chattering cheerfully.

    Mercadian Masques Lebaron, Francis 1999

  • If it could be done without exposing the tribesfolk to a stampede of Commonwealth attention, from starry‑eyed botanists to overeager anthropologists, so much the better.

    Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

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