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Tramp
A tramp is a homeless, jobless person who travels from place to place, usually begging or doing odd jobs; in American English it is also a slur for a woman.
Trans-Saharan migration through Agadez
Trans-Saharan migration through Agadez is the movement of West and Central African migrants through Agadez, Niger, the principal transit hub on overland routes toward Libya and Algeria.
Transracial (identity)
Transracial (identity) covers transracial adoptees raised across race lines and the contested self-identification sense highlighted by Rachel Dolezal and the 2017 Tuvel Hypatia controversy.
Transylvanian Saxons
Transylvanian Saxons (Siebenbürger Sachsen), a German-speaking community settled in Transylvania from the 12th century, historically privileged, Lutheran, and largely emigrated to Germany after 1989.
Tribal chief
Tribal chief: leader of a tribal or customary community, holding inherited or elected authority. Also called traditional leader or customary chief; in US tribal governments the chief executive is usually an elected chairman, president, or principal chief.
Tribal sovereignty in the United States
Tribal sovereignty in the United States is the inherent authority of 574 federally recognized tribes to govern themselves. This authority predates the Constitution and is exercised over tribal lands.
Tribalism
Tribalism: strong loyalty to one's own tribe or social group, also the tendency to treat one's group as "us" and others as "them". Studied via social identity theory; scholars since Vail (1989) and Mafeje treat tribalism as partly a colonial construct, and "tribe" is discredited in anthropology.
Tribe
Tribe: an anthropological category for kinship-based, non-state social groups, derived from the Roman tribus and standardized during colonial rule. Largely abandoned as an analytical term since Fried's and Southall's critiques; now survives in legal uses such as ILO Convention No. 169 and federally recognized Native American tribes.
Tribes of Arabia
Tribes of Arabia (qabīla, قبيلة): Arabian tribal groups defined by descent from Adnan or Qahtan, their segmentary structure, classical genealogies, major confederations, and role in modern Gulf states.
Tribes of Yemen
Tribes of Yemen: kinship-based social and political units organized in confederations, chiefly Hashid, Bakil, Madhaj, Himyar, and Kinda. Governed by sheikhs and customary law (urf), strongest in the northern highlands, and central to Yemeni state-building, mediation, and the current war.
Trinidadians and Tobagonians
Trinidadians and Tobagonians (Trinis, Trinbagonians) are the people of the twin-island republic of Trinidad and Tobago, an ethnically mixed Caribbean population roughly evenly divided between Afro-Trinidadians and Indo-Trinidadians, formed by indigenous, African, Indian indentured, and smaller migrant streams.
True Crime Community
True Crime Community (TCC), #tcc, an online subculture glorifying mass shooters and serial killers, largely of minors, distinct from mainstream true crime fandom; ADL tracked 28 TCC-linked attacks and 66 perpetrators since 2024, with Columbiner roots.
Trump administration family separation policy
The Trump administration family separation policy (zero tolerance) separated migrant children from parents at the U.S.–Mexico border, formalized April–June 2018, ended by court order and Executive Order 13841, with over 11,800 people later covered by the Ms. L settlement.
Trump travel ban
Trump travel ban: series of 2017-2026 executive orders and proclamations restricting entry of nationals of designated countries under INA 212(f); upheld 5-4 in Trump v. Hawaii (2018); expanded to 39 countries by 2025-2026 proclamations.
Truphena Muthoni
Truphena Muthoni (born 2003) is a Kenyan environmentalist, founder of Hug the Earth, and Guinness World Record holder for the longest tree-hugging marathon: 72 hours in Nyeri, December 8-11, 2025, beating her own 48-hour record.
Tsimshian
The Tsimshian (Ts'msyen) are a Northwest Coast Indigenous nation of northwestern British Columbia whose territory spans the lower Skeena River and, since 1887, part of southern Alaska.
Tswana people
Tswana (baTswana), a Sotho-Tswana people of South Africa and Botswana speaking Setswana, about 4 million strong, of mixed Khoisan and Bantu farming descent, with stone-walled towns and chiefdoms before 19th-century upheaval and colonial rule.
Tuareg people
Tuareg (Imajeghen): Saharan Berber-speaking nomadic pastoral confederations of Algeria, Libya, Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, speaking Tamasheq, writing Tifinagh, with matrilineal descent and a stratified society of imajeghan, imghad, and iklan.
Tulu people
The Tulu people, or Tuluvas, are speakers of Tulu, a Dravidian language of southwestern India whose homeland, Tulu Nadu, spans coastal Karnataka and northern Kerala.
Tungusic peoples
Tungusic peoples are the ethnolinguistic groups speaking Tungusic languages across Siberia, Manchuria, and Xinjiang, including Evenks, Evens, Nanai, Oroqen, Xibe, and Manchus; about twenty endangered languages, with Manchu the Qing official language.
Tunku Abu Bakar
Tunku Abu Bakar (Tunku Abu Bakar Mahmood Iskandar Ibrahim Ibni Sultan Ibrahim), Tunku Putera Johor, is a son of Sultan Ibrahim of Johor, born 2001, and a GT racing driver, 2023 GT3 Asia runner-up.
Tunku Tun Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah
Tunku Tun Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah, born 1986, is a princess of the Malaysian state of Johor and the only daughter of Sultan Ibrahim, who became Malaysia's king in 2024.
Turkic peoples
Turkic peoples are Eurasian peoples speaking Turkic languages, named after the Türk (Tujue) who founded the 552 CE Türk Qaghanate. Branches include Oghuz, Karluk, and Kipchak; over 170 million speakers today.
Turkification
Turkification: assimilation policies making populations Turkish in language and identity, from late Ottoman CUP rule through the Kemalist Republic, targeting Muslim minorities especially Kurds, with Lausanne-recognized non-Muslim exceptions.
Turkish Cypriots
Turkish Cypriots (Kıbrıs Türkleri), the Turkish-speaking Muslim community of Cyprus descended from Ottoman settlers after 1571, about 18% of the island's people, now living mostly in the Turkish-recognized north after the 1963 collapse and 1974 division.
Turkmens
Turkmens, also known as Turkmen people, are a Turkic ethnic group speaking the Turkmen language, with the largest population in Turkmenistan and communities in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Turks in Germany
Turks in Germany: the roughly three-million-strong community of Turkish origin, Germany's largest migrant group, rooted in the 1961 Anwerbeabkommen guest worker recruitment agreement and the 1973 recruitment stop, now in its fourth generation.
Tuscarora migration
The Tuscarora migration was the movement of the Tuscarora people from eastern North Carolina northward between 1713 and 1803 to join the Iroquois Confederacy as its sixth nation.
Tuscarora people
Tuscarora (Skarù∙ręʔ, Hemp People), an Iroquoian people of North Carolina defeated in the 1711-1713 Tuscarora War, adopted as the sixth nation of the Haudenosaunee around 1720-1723, now centered in Niagara County, New York.
Tutsi
Tutsi: one of Rwanda and Burundi's three social categories with Hutu and Twa; precolonially fluid and status-based, fixed as racial categories by Belgian 1933–34 identity cards, targeted in the 1994 genocide.