Sentence examples for a tribe of about from inspiring English sources

In 2004, Carolina Izquierdo, an anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, spent several months with the Matsigenka, a tribe of about twelve thousand people who live in the Peruvian Amazon.

The Huichol Indians, a tribe of about 23,000 known for its artwork and its use of peyote in religious ceremonies, spent centuries unchanged by Christianity or Western culture.

The Ka'apor – a tribe of about 2,200 people in Maranhão state – have organised a militia of "forest guardians" who follow a strategy of nature conservation through aggressive confrontation.

It seemed slightly strange to him, like an artifact in some museum exhibition about a tribe of people he had only ever read about in school.

It was about a tribe of monkeys who live on the rooftops of Jodhpur.

If you are writing about a tribe of people – in our case, the upper classes – you need to immerse yourself in them.

It's a story based on a Buddhist legend about a tribe of monkeys that decide to go on a diet, but find that they simply cannot stay away from bananas.

Writer talked with Caroline Stanley-Millson, who told her about a tribe of people she had discovered in the jungle of southern India who until a few years ago lived in trees.

He began writing a series of stories for the newspaper's children's corner about a tribe of people called the Munrungs living on a world called Carpet, which became his first novel, The Carpet People, published in 1971.

(Scott) '10,000 B.C.' (PG-13, 1 49) In the future this saga, loaded with computer-generated imagery, about a tribe of mammoth-hunters will be enjoyable, in a campy kind of way, for its earnest, B-movie dumbness.

Rich men have always got away with producing bastards as long as they picked up the tab; condemnations of bastardy are usually prompted by concern about a tribe of bastards having to be raised "on the parish".