Word: tribalization
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High in the central mountains north of Saigon, Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, solemn and immaculate in a white sharkskin suit, sat on a canopied dais before representatives of 600,000 mountain tribesmen. Huge brass gongs sounded out a tribal chant. Tribesmen, some wearing only loincloths, others rigged out in bright robes and peacock feathers placed ceremonial jars of wine from each mountain village before him. Through long, curved bamboo stems, Diem took a ceremonial draught from each jar. Then village elders slipped three large gold bracelets on Diem's arm, spread the head and entrails of two sacrificed water...
...problem. Last week, in a thoroughgoing, 482-page report, the Royal Commission made one overriding recommendation: the White Highlands must be opened up to African ownership, and African land ghettoes must be done away with. As for the Africans, the commission urged them to drop their old ways of tribal land ownership, and to switch to individual or family land ownership...
...Belgians taught the Bantu to run bulldozers, looms and furnaces, to rivet ships, drive taxis and trucks. Girls with grotesque tribal markings etched into their ebony foreheads sell in shops, teach in schools, nurse in hospitals. Already thousands of natives in the Congo's bustling cities earn $100-$150 a month -more than most workers in Europe, and small fortunes by African standards. They buy sewing machines, phonographs and bicycles in such profusion that Sears, Roebuck has recently put out a special Congo catalogue...
...Bruhl: "Le reve est le vrai dieu des Primitifs [The dream is the real god of primitive peoples]." The Russians know that the far-flung Amangtak-wena tribe is expecting its chief witch doctor to have a "dream," i.e., to receive from the spirit world an oracular directive on tribal policy. Hunter-Hero Pierre de Beauvilliers suspects a sinister hand when a Negro clutching a flamingo feather (the summons to a dream powwow) is murdered. Pierre gets on the scent like a pointer, and soon every trail is dotted with silent tribesmen padding to the rendezvous where the dream...
...were not sorry to move, for grim as they are, the iron-roofed brick cottages at Meadowlands are an improvement on much of Sophiatown. But many objected to being moved because they are black. Said Dr. Alfred Xuma, a 60-year-old Sophiatowner who worked his way up from tribal herdsman to a medical degree at the University of Minnesota and the respect of the medical profession: "What happens to people like me? Must "I now be expected to return to my tribal ways...