Word: tribalization
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...Indian courts and for all other compulsory requirements. Last week when the Senate and House got around to passing the measure, the New Deal for Indians consisted of the following: 1) The right of a tribe by majority vote to obtain a Federal charter for a corporation to run tribal fishing, lumbering or other activities. 2) $10,000,000 for a revolving fund for loans to tribal organizations. 3) $250,000 a year for the expenses of tribal organizations. 4) $250,000 a year for Indian scholarships. 5) $2,000,000 for new land purchases. 6) Civil service changes...
...smiling Negro with a large gold tooth, was Asadata Dafora Horton, Kykunkor's librettist, composer, choreographer and director. He is a native of Sierra Leone. His great- grandfather, a slave for a time, took the name Horton from the Nova Scotian who owned him. Asadata Dafora started studying tribal music and dancing in his 'teens, traveled all over Africa, learned 14 dialects which he supplemented later with English, French, German, Spanish, Italian. He drifted to Europe, sang at the Scala in Milan until the War, during which he fought for the British in the West African Fron- tier...
...himself part of this dusty district - Ibn Saud, ruler of the Nejd. Abdul Aziz ibn Abdur Rahman Al Faisal Al Saud, Knight Grand Commander of the Indian Empire, better known as Ibn Saud, is a towering figure, 6 ft. 4 in. in his sandals. His simplest method of holding tribal loyalties is to marry the sheik's daughter. He has taken to wife over 100 of them in the past ten years, divorced most of them (no disgrace in Arabia). Because he has given up camels for fast bullet-proof motor cars in conducting desert warfare, his favorite wives...
...monument to the Piper will be unveiled and dedicated. Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hiawatha of the Algonquian Ojibwas ceased to be a legend, was proved a person when the Smithsonian Institution announced that, an Iroquois, he lived between 1550 and 1600, was a cannibal by tribal custom...
...Oceania and Africa, sculpture serves mainly for the representation of native gods or ancestral spirits who are thought of as forces for good or evil in the tribal life. There is no incentive to represent these gods in terms of exterior reality as we know it. Primitive man tends to think of matter as something which can conceivably change its nature in almost any particular, and in ways that originate in the most accidental associative processes...