Word: tribalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City to found the Fourth Street i, which records the street games, block news and recipes of the Lower East Side. He has encouraged Oglala Sioux children in Pine Ridge, S. Dak., to publish Hoyekiya (Sioux for "to find a voice"), which has printed stories on tribal culture, including the sun dance, herbal medicine and the tipsinna, an edible wild turnip...
Hungary was not the only stop during Rogers' trip where things went unexpectedly well. In Yemen, where he had to fly through sandstorms to dine with dagger-armed tribal chieftains, diplomatic relations were resumed after a five-year hiatus. The Secretary of State watched as the U.S. flag was raised over the embassy in San'a for the first time since the outbreak of the 1967 war between Israel and the Arabs. In return Washington last week began talks on a new U.S. assistance program for the Yemenis...
...motive: to give them something of their own to be proud of. They felt degraded by Belgium's harsh colonialism under which they were called macaques (apes) and treated as backward children. Mobutu's "authenticity" campaign, going back as it does to their own precolonial tribal roots, at least gives them something to hold...
Such are the scenes of genocide in Burundi, where the Hutu tribal majority revolted last month against their traditional overlords, the Tutsi tribesmen,* and the Tutsi-controlled government of President Michel Micombero (TIME, May 22). The revolt was put down after two weeks of fighting, but not before tens of thousands of Tutsis had been slain. In the town of Nyanza-Lac alone, a single Catholic priest presided over the mass burial of 15,000 Tutsis...
...Fuller Torrey of the National Institute of Mental Health. Most of his colleagues would not go that far, but some believe that witch doctors can help their emotionally troubled patients. That is why the institute is now providing scholarships for Navajo Indians studying "curing ceremonials" under the tutelage of tribal medicine men on the federal reservation at Rough Rock, Ariz...