Spirit of the people there moving east (5)
I believe the answer is:
ethos
'spirit' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'of the people there moving east' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'of' could be 'o' and 'o' is found within the answer.
an anagram of 'the' is 'eth' which is located in the answer.
A single letter 's' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ethos that I've seen before include "Moral character" , "Characteristic attitudes" , "Distinctive attitudes of a people" , "Spirit (of an age/culture)" , "General feeling" .)