Word: tribalization
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Midnight Drums. In Pendleton, Ore., Chief Jim Kanine of the Umatilla, Cayuse and Wallawalla tribes, ordered that during the cafe curfew tom-toms at tribal dances must be silenced at midnight...
Collier's Reorganization Act, adopted by Congress in 1934 over the fierce opposition of lumbermen and ranchers (who stood to lose valuable leaseholds by it), opened the way. Indians finally had the use of their tribal holdings and the right to extend them. Also each reservation could, by majority vote, incorporate its business affairs under federal charter and secure a constitution...
...exile, for reconquering his craggy kingdom for him. But for a long time Haile Selassie, a proud man, had longed for the absolute authority he once had. In the interim, Britain had guided his affairs of state, protected his frontiers, helped restore his war-torn towns, even put down tribal rebellions. There were also disturbing whispers that Britain was planning to mold a Greater Somaliland out of British and Italian Somaliland, with a slice of Ethiopia included. Haile Selassie wanted less help in managing his own affairs...
...Reason. Mitchell Paige, no cinema gyrene, was a quietly savvy guy. He neither smoked, drank, nor swore (his most rugged expletive was saved for the Japs: "damned slopeheads"). In Samoa he nursed a child through fever, was appointed by the natives as "Talking Chief"-tribal adviser...
Following tribal custom the men do not cut their hair. But men & women are equally beardless; both sexes wear indeterminate gowns. All of them are intensely modest. When Miss Duby and a doctor in her party gave them medical injections, to kill the parasitic flies which often lodge in their skins, they acted as though they were being seduced...