Word: tribalization
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...such kidney was the ruler of Persia when Colonel Reza Khan took over. The treasury was empty, the Army little more than an armed rabble. Brigandage and tribal disaffection were rampant. The country's roads were hardly better than camel tracks, and so dreadful was transportation that fields of surplus wheat and barley might rot in one section while 600 miles away a bread famine would rage. The citizenry was saturated with corruption, ignorance and disease...
Cheyenne Indians, in complete tribal regalia, picketed the U.S. post office at Watonga, Okla. Inside was a mural by Edith Mahier of the University of Oklahoma, depicting their ancestors under the reign of Chief Roman Nose. Explained 71-year-old Chief Red Bird: "Picture not like Roman Nose. Breech clout too short, look like Navajo. Roman Nose's baby look like stumpy pig. No good. It stinks...
Osman's Legacy. Turkey's amazing his tory began in 1227, when a tribe which had been driven out of Central Asia by the Mongols settled in Asia Minor near Angora (Ankara). Osman, the son of the tribal leader, organized scattered groups in Asia Minor into a fighting unit, laid the foundations of the Empire which was called Ottoman after him. The hoofs of the fast-moving Osmanli cavalry first sounded on the European shores of the Dardanelles in 1354. In 1453, under Mohammed the Conqueror, the Osmanlis took Constantinople and overran the Bal kans. Selim the Grim...
Government money subsidizes Christian colleges, Christian hospitals, Christian service councils. Government appropriations are made for Christian evangelists who go to the tribal districts of China's Far Western frontier. Mission universities are now backed in every possible way so that they may train brains for the new China. Their 1940-41 enrollment is a record 7,734, up 20% from peacetime 1937. Once forbidden by law to require religious study, they can now make the weekly compulsory Sun Yat-sen memorial meetings a forum for religious education...
Birdsell and Norman B. Tindale, Ethnologist of the South Australia Museum and the University of Adelaide, were in the field more than a year in 1938-39, and made physical measurements of some 2,500 Australian natives and half castes from about a hundred different tribal groups in the East, South and West. They traveled some 20,000 miles in the expedition, mostly by truck...