Word: tribalized
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...become a religion, but you gave it a mighty push, resulting in new maps that were not much more logical than the old ones. The multinational Austro-Hungarian Empire, for instance, was followed by new constructs -- Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia -- containing as many disparate and often hostile peoples. Hence today's tribal conflicts. All too often, a mistreated minority achieves independence and then mistreats other minorities in its midst or tries to "rescue" its brethren who live on the other side of a national frontier. Thus self-determination for one people becomes aggression against another...
...that he was ejected from the mission because he had 'gone native.' He peppers his accounts of missionary work with graphic narratives of the blood sacrifices and propiatiations of pagan idols in which he eagerly participated. While his sisters encourage him to celebrate Mass, he flings himself into a tribal rain dance with gay abandon. The man whom the village heralded as the vanguard of godliness turns out to have been a gin-addled apostate...
...case in point of Weld's successful approach is the recent casino controversy. Weld supports the building of casinos on Indian tribal land, which will undoubtedly bring more jobs to the state and encourage Massachusetts residents to spend their recreational money here instead of in nearby Connecticut, at the popular Foxwoods casino. Despite overwhelming popular support for this plan, Weld's Democratic opponent, Mark Roosevelt '78, is morally opposed to building any casinos in Massachusetts...
...most searing issue of identity stems from a 1953 congressional policy, bluntly titled "termination." The Federal Government severed its legal obligations to some 50 tribes and groups, and relocated thousands of people from their reservations into nearby cities. Tribal protests in the '60s and '70s forced the government to change its policy, and many Indians reclaimed their roots. By the 1990 census, a record 1.9 million people were self- identified Native Americans...
...government had made a treaty. Today the Interior Department recognizes 550 tribes; there are 120 others vying for recognition. At first glance, some of the key recognition criteria seem sensible enough: a tribe's members must live in a specifically Indian community; they must be able to prove continuous "tribal political influence . . . throughout history." The problem is that many of the applicant groups are tattered remnants of Eastern and California tribes that were outlawed and hunted. Continuous community and "political influence" are hard to prove and difficult to apply...