Word: tribalization
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...Accept . . ." But there was still plenty to worry about. Traditionalists among the Indians are opposed to the burgeoning Native Church because they fear it undercuts the older, pre-Christian tribal customs. Many Christian missionaries want to see the church outlawed altogether. In 1940 the Navajo Tribal Council forbade the use of peyote, and this year arrested 13 members...
History. In Christ's time, Mayan Indians, history's most brilliant aborigines, created in Guatemala a culture that included sculpture, arithmetic, writing and trade (in textiles and featherwork) over a net of fine roads-though they had neither domestic animals nor the wheel. But earthquakes, plagues and tribal wars so weakened them that in 1523-26 Spanish Captain Pedro de Alvarado's 120 horsemen and 500 foot soldiers were able to subjugate 2,000,000 Indians. Spain made Guatemala the viceregal capital of Central America, and enslaved the Indians as plantation labor; an Indian caught riding...
...underpin the Ford Foundation, made an appearance at a credit-men's convention in San Francisco and unburdened himself of some random thoughts on the lurking perils of 100% Americanism: "To hear these people [i.e., superpatriots] talk, you would think that the American way consisted of unanimous tribal self-admiration . . . There is a present danger that critics of even the mildest sort will be frightened into silence ... I sometimes think we are approaching the point where it will be impossible for one person to be seen with another person until he first gets the other person cleared with...
SAUDI ARABIA now gets the bulk of its national revenue from oil royalties. Unfortunately, at present the money goes largely to subsidize royal relatives and tribal chieftains,"a relatively small group lacking in civic conscience...
...During all the long months when his Queen was proceeding on her majestic, globe-girdling tour of Britain's dominions, native unrest in Sir Andrew's own bailiwick had mounted steadily. Uganda's blacks were still bitterly resentful of Cohen's exile of their own tribal ruler, the Kabaka (TIME, Dec. 14, 1953). Mau Mau terrorism had spread through the jungles from Kenya right into Uganda's teeming chief city Kampala, where many a white resident found a dead dog or cat crucified on his doorway in grim warning of what might come. A threat...