Word: tribalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week's talks by a colleague, Elliot Gabella) does not enjoy Muzorewa's popularity, but he is considered to be a skillful political tactician. He also commands considerable financial resources from big London-based donors. Senator Chirau has the firmest political base among the conservative tribal chiefs, who still influence millions of the country's blacks...
...some established means of learning about electronic technology in your college. After all, didn't McLuhan say, "We are no more prepared to encounter radio and TV in our literate milieu than the native of Ghana is able to cope with the literacy that takes him out of his tribal world and beaches him in individual isolation...
BEYOND THE LEGAL QUESTION of the Wamponoags' tribal status lies a more serious moral question. Is it possible for a group of people unconsciously conditioned by their own cultural and racial assumptions to judge objectively an alien racial and cultural group? Do they have the right to sit in judgment at all? Ellsworth Oakley, tribal chief of the Mashpee Wamponoags, posed this very question: "How can a white jury decide for us? We know who we are." The sessions of the trial consistently revealed the difficulty of cross-cultural evaluation. At one point during the proceedings, James D. St. Clair...
...Clair also tried to discredit the Wamponoags' tribal government by appealing to white American notions of what constitutes a governing body. He cited the lack of an internal court system, ignoring the fact that the Indians have less institutionalized ways of enforcing community morals. In questioning one witness about the tribal meetings, St. Clair focused on the decision-making process. He asked the witness if the tribal chief made a decision or whether the meeting as a whole voted. The witness hesitated, at a loss to explain an Indian preference for consensual decision-making in the context of St. Clair...
...only was St. Clair's behavior high-handed, culturally biased, and subtly racist, his argument of cultural assimilation proved logically contradictory. In arguing that the Indians' loss of their native language, their intermarriage, their informal government, and their conversion to Christianity dissolved their tribal status, he ignored the stark fact that Indians, at least in the East, have to live in a white man's society and by white man's rules. Indians survived by undergoing cultural assimilation, and now they are being penalized for adapting to necessity...