Word: tribalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beliefs about gambling on tribal territory are, as a professor of mine might say, unscrutinized. My thought process goes something like this: Native Americans have been screwed so badly that there are few laws the U.S. wouldn't be justified suspending for them. They want half the annual profits of the Indians and Redskins? Sounds fair. The entire state of South Dakota? Fine by me. But allowing gambling is the least we can do. Damn, we ought to build the casinos for them...
Although the students in Anthropology 199a: "Nation Building I," are in the business of learning how to be tribal leaders and how to lead Native American communities into the 21st century, the class itself is a tribe without a chief...
Richard Zoglin in his review of the West [TELEVISION Sept. 16] says "intertribal hatreds" marred relations among Native Americans. But intertribal warfare isn't really a matter of hatred. The tribal view sees ethics in terms of harmony vs. disharmony, not good vs. evil. Hunting is a part of this harmony, and so is war. Thus Lakota warriors went into battle shouting, "It's a good day to die!" The Judeo-Christian ethic says someone must be at fault if there is war. But tribal ethics recognizes no-fault war. MARK MIDBON Mesa, Arizona...
...Tribal leaders from across the country, as well as University officials and students, will attend the festivities...
...flight toward Canada with his hitherto peaceful Nez Perce tribe, which launched deadly raids against the pursuing Army troops while trying to outrun them, only to surrender, in the brutal cold of Montana, just 40 miles from the border. Yet the series does not ignore complexities (the inter-tribal hatreds, for example), and the matter-of-fact tone of its Native American spokespeople (particularly the mellifluous novelist N. Scott Momaday) is largely free of sentimentality and moral hauteur...