Word: tribalization
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...Land Without Laughter. Real name of Ahmad Kamal is Cimarron Hathaway, 28, redheaded, scimitar-scarred. Great-grandson of a Tatar chieftain, he spent most of his childhood on U. S. Indian reservations, where his German-born mother did tribal research...
...subjected to execrable' food and housing, cruel discipline, the most rudimentary education, an absolute taboo on their native language, continuous propaganda to despise their parents, their religion, their legends, their arts, their race. Through the Allotment Act (1887) the reservations were so checkered and subdivided that free movement, tribal unity, and cattle raising became impossible. Of tribal funds held in trust the Government spent 93% on "administrative costs." Every stratagem was worked to acquire for white use key lands along watercourses without which the surrounding territory was useless. In 1887 Indians held 139,000,000 acres...
Officials of Luzon, largest island in the Philippines, alarmed by inter-tribal strife, recently called a confab. Invited were the mountain tribesmen, who believed their hunting grounds were being encroached upon. Special word and promises of presents went out by jungle telegraph through the Cordillera range to the tribesmen...
When, in one of ancient Palestine's numerous tribal wars, the Ephraimites sought to slip undetected among the Gileadites, the latter asked all comers to pronounce the word "shibboleth" (ear of corn). Those who called it "shibboleth" were Ephraimites, got killed. Last week many a shibboleth was voiced on a new Mutual network program called Where Are You From? Dr. Henry Lee Smith Jr., smart, wispy-mustached, 26-year-old Columbia University lecturer in English, cocked an expert ear when members of a WOR studio audience read improbable statements like the following...
Phase Five: Extermination. Three days after Hero Warburton-Lee's raid, the battleship Warspite arrived off Narvik accompanied by the remains of the H-class destroyers, plus the heavier (1,870 ton) "Tribal" destroyer flotilla including the famed Cossack (which raided the prison ship Altmark in Norwegian waters in February). This heavy force plowed up the fjord, silenced the Nazis' shore guns, sank seven destroyers, stood by to watch Norwegian shore forces clean out the landing party of 5,000 Nazis...