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Tribes of Israel
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Tribes of Israel the twelve divisions of ancient Israel, each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob. Ten of the tribes (Asher, Dan, Gad, Issachar, Levi, Manasseh, Naphtali, Reuben, Simeon, and Zebulun, known as the
Lost Tribes) were deported to captivity in Assyria
c.720 bc, leaving only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. Also called
Twelve Tribes of Israel.
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Tribes hope to restore tax on BNSF
Newspaper article from: The Billings Gazette; 3/20/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...statute or treaty, Indian tribes lack civil authority...that rule are if the tribe and nonmember have entered...health and welfare of the tribe. In his summary-judgment...Shanstrom said the tribe could not establish that...agreement existed between the tribes and the railroad or that...
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 "The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)")
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Tribe to ask state to withdraw casino suit.(Government)(A legal victory would put plans for gambling at a site near Florence on the fast track)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 2/7/2003; 700+ words
; ...in Oregon, the Confederated Tribes is the only one still without a casino. The tribe has been trying since 1995 to...government as "restored" to a tribe. The Confederated Tribes is the only Oregon tribe to seek an approved gaming site...
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 "Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)")
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Tribes downplay effects of slots compact.
Newspaper article from: Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA); 3/9/2007; 700+ words
; ...27 of the state's 29 tribes, including the Kalispel Tribe and the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation...proposed agreement: --Each tribe could own 975 machines...leasing machines from other tribes, tribes could offer players...
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Tribes Gain New Revenue with South Dakota Tax Agreement.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 2/4/2004; 700+ words
; ...expense to the tribes for this service...Steele said when the tribe first passed a...Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and the Rosebud Sioux Tribes negotiated the...The Rosebud Sioux Tribe will collect 88...Viken said if the tribes had not passed...
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Tribes call Puyallups' payout plan a gamble that could ensure welfare state.(The Seattle Times)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 5/16/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Saturday, the Tulalip Tribes will vote on whether...only 47 of 201 gaming tribes make per-capita payments...members. The Puyallup Tribe sees the payments as...centers in the region. The tribe also is small, with...the state's 14 gaming tribes. Darrel Hillaire, chairman...
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Tribes in California Wager on Non-Gambling Ventures.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 6/24/2002; 700+ words
; ...the 14 Inland Empire tribes, 10 have established casinos. The Pechanga tribe is set to open the...coordinator with the tribe's economic development department. The tribe has taken an interest...Traditionally, tribes have faced obstacles...
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Tribes seeother sideof nation'sexpansion
Newspaper article from: St. Joseph News-Press; 6/27/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...relations between some tribes and the young American...powerful Teton Sioux Tribe in September 1804...Kan. Like many tribes, the Powhattan, Kan.-based Kickapoo Tribe sees the downside...Representatives of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska...comment. Many of the tribes' stories ...
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Tribe.net Releases List of 25 Most Interesting People in the San Francisco Bay Area You Never Heard Of.
PR Newswire; 6/28/2005; 700+ words
; ...turned-general- contractor who's into haute couture? Answer: on Tribe.net. All of these individuals have been named to the Tribe 25/San Francisco for 2005. Tribe.net, a company whose backers include Knight Ridder, The Washington...
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Tribes only want back part of what was stolen from them.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 3/30/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Hills Claims suit brought by the united tribes of the Great Sioux Nation that these lands, sacred to several Indian tribes, were taken illegally. Supreme Court...be found in our history.'' The tribes of the Great Sioux Nation were awarded...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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TRIBES GIVE BIG TO GREGOIRE, AVOID SHARING CASINO CASH GOVERNOR SAYS DEAL CURBS THE GROWTH OF INDIAN GAMBLING.(News)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 6/13/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...with the Spokane Tribe. Gregoire backed...including other tribes, said her spokesman...bets are off." Tribes have also contributed...Commission and the Spokane Tribe reached an agreement...the state and the tribe," Crowell said...that a number of tribes did come out and...
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Hill Tribes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...tribes nor treated as Scheduled Tribes, who nonetheless today are...classification as Scheduled Tribes for the most obvious of reasons...actually became a Scheduled Tribe in 1991. Although many of the earlier accounts depicted hill tribes as "animists," or believers...
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Tribe
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...English word “ tribe ” ; it began...United States and India, tribes today refer to the indigenous...structural definition of tribe, particularly in the...study, characterized tribes with segmentary lineages...in characterizing a tribe. He contended...
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tribes of Israel
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
...and Naphtali ). The twelve tribes are not identical in each...Ephraim and Manasseh as separate tribes. Levi possessed no land but members of the tribe were distributed amongst the...In 722 BCE the northern tribes (called Ephraim or Israel...
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Tribes and Tribalism: Arabian Peninsula
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
TRIBES AND TRIBALISM...the peninsula, a tribe is a group defined...superior and inferior tribes, is frowned upon...the status of the tribe as a whole. These...members. Although tribes may differ in status...within a given tribe are considered...
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Tribes and Tribalism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...TRIBALISM This entry consists of the following articles: arabian peninsula butayna tribe dawasir tribe fadan kharasa tribe guish tribes hassana tribe matawirah tribe muntafiq tribe murrah, al- mutayr tribe qashqa ʾ i quraysh tribe shammar...
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