Word: tribalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Begay directs two Kennedy School-based projects which actively export Harvard to various tribes. The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development and the National Executive Education Program for Native American Leadership analyze reservations' economic programs and train current tribal leaders to approach policy and institutional reforms, he says...
...have sworn they will not leave Kabul. Massoud, an ethnic Tajik, is aided by the Taliban's plummeting popularity, but the key to his offensive is his tenuous alliance with Abdul Rashid Dostum, a powerful Uzbek warlord, who is with Massoud's forces battling the Taliban near Kabul. The tribal nature of the conflict has always complicated the fighting. Last week the Taliban, mostly ethnic Pashtun, were going house to house in Kabul in search of Tajiks and Uzbeks. Pakistan's meddling can only worsen the hostilities, and the lines of refugees will stretch deep into the winter...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The monstrousness of the idea that the U.S. is morally obligated to police every border, to solve every ancient tribal feud, to act as a global Solomon--this is what drove me to throw down the gauntlet and take on an opponent who enjoys every advantage...
Regardless, I feel like I should probably do what a competent reporter would do to an unscrutinized belief--scrutinize it. So I call the casino and soon I'm talking to Savero Mancini, a man I've got to assume is not one of the tribal elders. Before I can get to my questions, he's unloading facts on me left and right: 170,000 square feet; 2,600 slots, etc. Then he starts into more peculiar terrain. "The day-care program is fully licensed," he explains, "with very tight security...There's only...
...steer him towards a discussion of the cultural, economic and political issues involved in building a tribal casinos, but Mancini pleads ignorance. He doesn't know about the tribe, only the casino. What he can tell me, however, is that, "Mohegan Sun keeps its Indian theme." In fact, one of the restaurants is named after the grandsons of Uncas, the founding father of the tribe. "So the casino serves Native American cuisine?" I ask, at once impressed and surprised. But Mancini pauses, apparently flustered by my line of reasoning. "No, it's Italian food...