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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
the Five Civilized Tribes
the Five Civilized Tribes [the Five Civilized Tribes] BrE NAmE the name used to refer to five groups of Native-American people in the ↑South: the ↑Cherokee, ↑Choctaw, Chickasaw, ↑Creek and ↑Seminole. The tribes were forced to leave their own lands and settle in the ↑Indian Territory, even though it was thought that they could be trusted because they had developed their own versions of the American Constitution and US laws.
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