Word: tribalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...events of the past two months at the Wind River Reservation (pop. 6,000) in Wyoming, where nine young tribesmen have taken their lives. That rate is some 24 times the average for Indian men ages 15 to 24, and 60 times the national figure. Last week tribal elders returned to a long-abandoned tradition in the hope of saving their children. TIME Correspondent Dan Goodgame reports from Wind River...
Inside the tepee, redolent of burning herbs, tribal elders daubed the students with scarlet paint to cleanse them of evil spirits. This was "big medicine," last invoked during the killing flu epidemic of 1918 and now revived to banish the modern-day evil that has lately infected Wind River...
Council members of the Jicarilla Apache tribe were jubilant last week as they gathered to discuss the use of 55,000 acres of new tribal land. The Jicarilla Apaches had paid for the land with $30.2 million raised by selling tribal revenue bonds, the first offering under a 1983 federal law that permits Indian tribal governments to enter the municipal bond market. Said Jicarilla President Leonard Atole: "We desired this fertile land for future economic development and for the housing needs of our people. The bond issue allows us to manage our financing needs without relying on the Federal Government...
...firm, for the deal. The tax-exempt bonds, which carry interest rates of 9.1% and 9.6%, are backed by revenues from Jicarilla oil and gas wells, which total about $20 million annually, plus $108 million of other financial assets. After Standard & Poor's officials met with members of the tribal council last month, the credit rating firm gave the bonds an A rating. That is two notches below the top grade of AAA, but higher than the BBB+ rating given bonds issued by Chicago or New York City...
...goes against human nature. Strangers are not supposed to set up civilizations together. A nation must arise out of a tribe, out of affinities of blood. At one time, if some Pacific island tribesmen encountered a man they had not seen before, they simply killed -- and sometimes ate -- him. Tribal policy. But the U.S., with its great polyglot ingathering, went brilliantly to the other extreme...