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From: blatt@Glacier.ARPA (Miriam Blatt)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.africa
Subject: Re: Tribes
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Date: Fri, 10-May-85 13:54:13 EDT
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> 
> According to my dictionary, TRIBE is defined as follows:
> 
>    "group of people united by race and customs under the same
>     leaders:   America was once the home of many Indian tribes."
> 
> still exist in America (on reservations).  I think of the
> Australian Aborigines as a tribe, and the Eskimo groups
> as tribes.  Likewise, from what I've seen on TV, there are
> many tribes in Africa.
> 

	Correction: there are many Australian Aborigine tribes,
	in much the same way as there are many American Indian tribes.

					Miriam Blatt
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