"Desert tribes" refers to groups of people who live in or originate from a desert region.
Full definition
It describes a geographic region of basin and range, a biological region of grass and scrub, and a historical region of
related desert tribes.
And as for that name: VW says the vehicle is named after «a traditional
African desert tribe that has made a name for itself trading precious goods.
For thousands of years, Eastern cultures and
nomadic desert tribes have known about the high nutritional values and slow release energy of the date fruit, often surviving on a date diet for weeks.
Fantasy novel, fifth in a series following The Warded Man (2009)(aka The Painted Man in the UK), The Desert Spear (2010), The Daylight War (2013), and The Skull Throne (2015),
about desert tribes preyed upon by night demons.
Here's VW's explanation: Touareg, also spelled Tuareg, is «a traditional
African desert tribe that has made a name for itself trading precious goods.
«Poetry was found to be very slightly more important among
the desert tribes than along the more sedentary coast, among those in the poorest economic group and among those who carry a gun (a result that was not explained simply by any greater prevalence of guns in desert locations).