Word: tribalized
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More is at stake than the gambling industry, with revenues of as much as $300 million, which has flourished on the U.S. side of the reservation since bingo parlors were introduced in 1986 as a quick and easy way to fund tribal welfare programs. "It's a question of who is going to have jurisdiction and under what conditions" over every aspect of reservation life, says Ron LaFrance, acting director of the American Indian Program at Cornell University. A bitter power struggle between three competing tribal councils has been exacerbated by disagreements among a maze of U.S. and Canadian government...
...become an annual ritual on the tranquil lakes of northern Wisconsin. As the sun sets behind the dense pines that surround Lake Nokomis, tribal drumbeats signal the start of the Chippewa spearfishing season. While the Indians steer their boats into the calm, dark waters, angry protesters try to drown out the drums with air horns, whistles and taunting choruses of songs with such lyrics as "Where have all the walleye gone...
Female Native American leaders are prepared to use innovative methods to sustain tribal traditions, said a group of more than 20 female American Indian chiefs who gathered at the Harvard Graduate School of Education yesterday...
...Tribal Indian women govern in the old traditional way. You are there to serve others, not for them to serve you," Haskins told the conference participants...
...leaders voiced many of the same concerns. Women play a growing role in tribal leadership, they said. The Tonkawa Tribe, represented at the conference by their president Virginia Combrink, made history last year by electing the first all-female government, the chiefs said...