Unidentified Tusken Raider tribe

A tribe of Tusken Raiders was active on the Dune Sea of Tatooine following the rescue of Han Solo by his companions from Tatooine Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure. The tribe was led by a chieftain and used black clothing and garments. Among its members were a female warrior, a male youngling, and eventually Boba Fett.

During Han Solo's rescue, bounty hunter Boba Fett was swallowed by the Sarlacc. Following Fett's escape from the Sarlacc pit, he was taken prisoner by the Tusken tribe. During his captivity, Fett gradually earned the tribe's respect, eventually helping the Tuskens stave off murderous raids by the Pyke Syndicate and training the tribe to use speeder bikes and other technology from off-world. Following a successful raid on a repulsortrain of the Pykes, the Tusken tribe sent Fett on a spiritual journey to retrieve a sacred branch from a wortwood tree as a rite of passage to join the tribe. Following his vision quest, Fett constructed a gaffi stick from the branch and was granted full status as a member of the tribe. The tribe was later massacred by the Pyke Syndicate while Fett was dealing with them, as Fett demanded the Pykes to pay protection to the tribe for running spice through the Dune Sea. The syndicate left evidence that a Nikto gang known as the Kintan Striders killed the tribe. When Fett returned to their camp, he gathered the bodies and weapons of the dead, and burned them at a funeral pyre.

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