Dogon

[ doh-gon ]

noun

, plural Do·gons, (especially collectively) Do·gon

1. a member of a group of Indigenous people of the mountains of central Mali.
2. the Gur language of the Dogon.

Example Sentences

There are other Indigenous cultures that speak about this: the Hopi tribe, the Dogon tribe in West Africa, the Lakota tribes.

From Los Angeles Times

General Dogon, an activist with Los Angeles Community Action Network who was in attendance, pushed back on that narrative, saying the arrested man had merely closed the door behind him.

From Los Angeles Times

To create a sea of white garments, the costume design team silk-screened patterns onto white and cream fabrics that resembled traditional garb worn by tribes like the Zulu and Xhosa people of South Africa and the Tuareg and Dogon tribes in Mali.

From New York Times

There is a large belt that represents M’Baku’s status as the ruler, with ropes and a raffia skirt based on the Dogon tribe of Mali, and a leather sheath underneath it.

From New York Times

This did not mean manufacturing copies of Indigenous Filipino basketry or resuscitating Filipino colonial painting, but instead diving deeply into an array of non-Western art — be it Dogon sculpture from Mali or tattooing traditions from Polynesia — and synthesizing them in ways that spoke to his experiences.

From Los Angeles Times