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Gond ,Korku, Bhill, Pardhan, Madia are some tribal communities settled in the hills and forest of Maharashtra. The area called Gondwan has the largest number of Gond and Pardhan communities and once they had their territory there. During the course of time, they lost their script but they were able to preserve their dialects and culture which is rich and erotic. There are several folk songs that they sing on the festivities and cultural gatherings. Now, due to the spread of education and facilities many talented poets and writers from the communities have come forward and produced a lot of literature, particularly poetry. They used Marathi script for their poetic expressions. The poets like Vitthalsing Dhurve, Prof. Kannake, Vaharu Sonawane, Dadaji Kusram and Shri Tulsidas Bhoyar are some of the gems whose poems in their respective dialects edited by Dr Vinayk Tumram have been taken for the study as a part of a project on translating tribal literature into English. This research article is an attempt to bring fore the tribal consciousness expressed by some tribal poets in Gondi, Kolami, Korku, Bhilli and Halbi dialects by translating them into English. Hopefully, it will provide an international platform to these tribal sense and sensibilities and bring before the developed world community the richness of rebellious thoughts and beautiful cadence of content essential in their short but simple compositions.