Word: tribalization
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What happened next day (and indeed what happens at any time in the North-West Frontier Province) was not "news" to be lightly observed and reported by correspondents but the subject of Government handouts. According to this the Viceroy showed his "faith and trust" in the tribal chieftains by permitting them to guard and ensure his safety on a short drive into the Khyber Pass "as far as the high ground" (from which Afghanistan may be sighted) and back to Peshawar. A very old chief under a voluminous shamianah (canopy) assured Lord Willingdon that "all the trouble hereabouts...
Died, Bangwan, 35, tribal chief of the saucer-lipped Ubangi; of Bright's disease; in Sarasota, Fla. A six-foot, tattooed warrior from the French Congo, Chief Bangwan drooped in his U. S. life of enforced ease. He left seven saucer-lipped relicts, three of them in John Ringling's Circus...
Died. Tom Bacon Rind, 84, onetime Chief of the Osage Indians; of cancer and pneumonia; in Pawhuska, Okla. Towering 6 ft. 4 in., he adhered strictly to the old-time tribal customs, deplored the "civilization" of his oilrich braves. Annually for 25 years he junketed to Washington to be greeted, photographed...
Perhaps because of his Pocahontas ancestry, Governor Murray has always had a deep and abiding interest and affection for Indians. Settling at Tishomingo, he became the tribal attorney for the Chickasaws. He studied their treaties, laws and customs, collected nearly a thousand rare books on Indian lore;-another manifestation of his innate scholarliness. Today he is an authority on the history and habits of the Oklahoma Indian. For a wife he picked Mary Alice Hearrell, half-white, half-indian. Her uncle was Governor Douglas H. Johnston, Chief of Chickasaws. Today Governor Murray still calls her "squaw" and her name...
...season draws to a close with the arrival of Prima Donna Parka who takes a fancy to Mr. Massey, and since she must have scandal wherever she goes, kisses Mr. Bullfinch. The Masseys pay off their social debts with a lecture on the Ceramics, Basketwork and Tribal Life of the Ogilluwaya Indians. All in all, everybody has enjoyed the summer. Everybody has made so many humorous mistakes and mutual blunders that, like checks at the clearing house, they cancel each other...