Word: tribalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dream of environmentalists finally transformed into grand reality. After two years of painstaking preparations, the Earth Summit got under way in Rio de Janeiro with a global guest list of more than 100 world leaders and 30,000 other people concerned about the planet, from climatologists to tribal chieftains. The get-together's size is matched only by its ambition: to put civilization on a path that will sustain economic development without destroying the environment that supports all life. Canadian Maurice Strong, who organized the United Nations-sponsored meeting, set the tone of urgency: "We are either going to save...
...often happens, the political boundaries they set did not coincide with tribal ones. The former Ottoman province of Albania became an independent country, but more than one-third of the Albanian people ended up outside its borders, living for the most part as second-class citizens in neighboring countries...
...indigenous nations, as well as 200 representatives from the U.S., Canada, Australia, Latin America, Scandinavia, Asia and Russia, are gathering at a specially constructed village near the Pedra Branca Forest. Besides environmental issues, the agenda includes such topics as land rights and self- government. On May 30 the tribal leaders will celebrate the "Day of the White Man" with dance and rituals...
America is in certain ways a country out of control: drugs, crime, what has become a morally borderless wandering. The two videos are a matched pair, complementary. They are choreographed like mtv, performed by Road Warriors. The Rodney King video shows cops in the stylized tribal rioting that men in groups on dangerous excursions sometimes use as a form of bonding -- solidarities of atrocity on the late shift. The truck-driver video looked like ritual sacrifice, the helicopter circling overhead, the rioters circling the trucker's flung body. Both videos recorded naked power dances, conscienceless, brainless, evil, pain inflicting...
...revive. Its protagonist, an FBI agent named Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer), is assigned to the reservation mainly for public relations reasons; he's one-quarter Sioux. And not proud of it. But the squalor of Pine Ridge touches him, as do the Native Americans, led by a tough, funny tribal policeman (Graham Greene) and a sly, funny shaman (Chief Ted Thin Elk). Slowly, but with powerfully accumulating dramatic effect, they put Levoi in touch with his Indian heritage. And with the truth about the murder he is there to investigate. It turns out to be similar to the situation projected...