'LOST' TRIBE IN HOMES STORM.A TRIBE tribe [Lat., tribus: the tripartite division of Romans into Latins, Sabines, and Etruscans], a social group bound by common ancestry and ties of consanguinity and affinity; a common language and territory; and characterized by a political and economic believed to have died out nearly 100 years have emerged from deep in the Amazon Amazon, in Greek mythology Amazon (ăm`əzŏn), in Greek mythology, one of a tribe of warlike women who lived in Asia Minor. jungle jungle [Hindustani jangal=desert, forest; from Skt. jangala=wasteland, uncultivated land], densest form of tropical forest (usually second growth or later) found throughout tropical lowland regions. . The Naua showed up to protest at a national park being set up where their homes are sited. The last recorded mention of them was in a newspaper article dated 1906 and headlined: "Last Naua woman marries." Yet more than 250 members of the Brazilian tribe have been living for decades in their hideaway - at least two days' trek from the nearest hamlet. Antonio Antonio lends money gratis. [Br. Lit.: Merchant of Venice] See : Generosity Antonio schemes against his brother Prospero. [Br. Lit.: The Tempest] See : Treachery Neto, at the National Indian Foundation HQ, said: "They said they should not have to leave their land since they had always been there. They said they were Naua. "We thought there were no more Naua. Our job now is finding them land. No humans are allowed in the park, just animals." The Naua were once the most populous pop·u·lous adj. Containing many people or inhabitants; having a large population. [Middle English, from Latin popul ethnic group in the Brazilian region called Acre. Some survivors have lost the Naua language and most of their native customs as many worked as rubber tappers in a remote region near Brazil's border with Peru. |
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