Word: tribalization
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Wheelchairs & Rams. The tribal system that kept the Navajos surviving in the years of poverty has saved most of those on the reservation from yielding to such impulses when the oil starts to flow. Among both Navajos and Utes, money from leases on reservation lands goes not to individuals but to the tribe, and the tribal councils, with approval of the U.S. Government, have taken a firm grip on the purse strings. Last week, as the 74-member Navajo council pored over the $12 million fiscal-1958 budget at the tribe's octagonal headquarters in Window Rock, Ariz...
...real tribal New Deal, the Navajo council has resisted the temptation to ease poverty with cash handouts: divvied up among the 86,000 Navajos, last year's $35 million tribal oil income would have meant only $400 apiece. Under the leadership of grey-haired Chairman Paul Jones, 62, a full-blooded Navajo, with a full count of glittering gold-filled teeth, the council spends very little for outright charity, devotes most of its budget to education and development projects. Items: ¶A $5,000,000 fund to provide 400 college scholarships a year...
What worries Jones and other tribal leaders is the lurking threat that, as landowning Navajos outside the reservation get hold of oil-lease money to spend any way they want to, envious Navajos inside the boundaries will insist on getting rid of council control and dividing up the oil income among the individual families. That kind of pressure is already violent among the neighboring Southern Utes: a few weeks ago Indian thugs jumped Southern Ute Council Chairman John Baker, No. 1 opponent of the clamorous share-the-wealth faction, and beat him unconscious...
...wizened and cross-eyed tribal witch doctor named Parserion arap Manyei, this official encouragement seemed a fine opportunity to settle some old scores. Twice exiled for anti-British activity, Manyei had hated the whites ever since his father was killed in the uprising at the turn of the century. Watching his fellow tribesmen turn out new arrows in the Mau Mau emergency, he envisioned a new and bloodier revolt with himself as the chief merchant of death, arid urged his tribal brothers on with their work...
...within-an ill-fed, disease-and fear-ridden race. To the African tribesman, whatever his ancestry or point of origin, the realities of life were pretty much the same all over the land. They consisted primarily of the village and the bush-the clearing in the forest where the tribal family had pitched its camp for a week or a day or a season, and the dark and hostile world beyond. In the tribal organization, a man's security lay in his tribal brothers, his wealth in his cattle and women, and his faith in the witch doctor whose...