Word: tribalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response to the financial situation, a group of students in the program has formed the Native American Multi. Tribal Educational Council (NAMTEC). By accepting consulting contracts for Indian education, NAMTEC will be able to contribute part of its fees to Ed School scholarships for Native American students...
...Harvard Inter-Tribal Council, representing the 25 members of the Harvard Indian community, is attempting to get University funding for student recruitment, but progress has been slow...
Descendants of the Indians who greeted white America's ancestors at Plymouth Rock have organized their own somewhat sardonic Thanksgiving. Some 500 Indians will gather at that Pilgrim landfall to demonstrate, for Indian-studies programs in colleges, territorial justice and a return to tribal religions. They argue that Thanksgiving is only the white man's version of a longstanding Indian harvest festival, and the white man has been borrowing from the Indian ever since. Says Rayleen Bay, a Mohawk who helped organize the Indian anti-Thanksgiving: "Plymouth Rock should have landed on the Pilgrims...
...peasantry are concerned, up until recently there haven't been overwhelming sources of peasant discontent except in the tribal areas of the northeast...
...short, McLuhanesque gloom as usual; the juggernaut future is here, so let us all lie down. But as Lewis Mumford indicates in The Pentagon of Power, what McLuhan is asking for is utter human docility. "The goal is total cultural dissolutionor what McLuhan characterizes as a 'tribal communism'McLuhan's public relations euphemism for totalitarian control." Thus Sesame Street is indeed opposed to the message, if not the medium, of the Master. The show's civilized magic and surrealism seek to increase a child's sense of himself, to dilate his imagination and his capacities...