Word: tribalization
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...border, Kurdish tribesmen with an army of 5,000 demanded that Dictator Mustafa Kamâl Atatürk should establish no military garrisons in Kurdish territory, that Kurds should be allowed to keep their arms, should continue the time-honored custom of paying taxes by bargaining with their tribal chiefs. Kamâl Atatürk gave them an answer-30,000 Turkish troops, a fleet of war planes. The rebels were dug out like foxes from their mountain holes, butchered to the tune...
...young Omaha lawyer, George M. Tunison, 30, arrived on the Shoshone reservation to determine heirships of Indian lands in litigation. He opened a hornets' nest when he innocently asked tribal elders how Arapahoes happened to be sharing the reservation. Lawyer Tunison took the Shoshones' case. From 1912 to 1927 he labored to persuade Congress to permit the Shoshones to sue the Government. From 1927 to 1933 he organized the case, presented it to the United States Court of Claims, which granted the Shoshones $2,500,000 in 1935. The Indians appealed to the Supreme Court, which upheld their...
...Their money could apparently buy everything. . . . Their accent was beginning to be an asset, even to the English themselves, in truly 'smart' circles; it was beginning-you listened in that night?-to be heard in the voice of the young tribal God himself. . . . They were cock-a-hoop, and since Edward's accession getting insolent and out-of-hand. There was but one more world to conquer. The first woman to sit in the ancient Commons was a divorced American.* why not then also...
...wire enclosure for several years, still spending very little of his oil money. He dislikes white men, he still wears the long knife in a scabbard at his belt and he is reticent in conversation with most of his Osage brothers. Franklin Revard, a member of the tribal council and a prominent Osage, is one of the few to whom John will speak in Osage grunts...
...understand he has no living relatives. If this is true, John's well-hoarded cash will pass, at his death, into tribal funds and be spent by those whom the white man has taught to Spend-with a capital...