Word: tribalized
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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...
...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...
...South Africa's white community, the 16% minority that rules a nation at once divided and single-minded. Over the course of the book, Van der Merwe and more than 30 other Wyndal residents vent their passions, explain their prejudices and in effect deliver their own eulogies. "We lack (tribal ritual) so terribly in our society," laments Peter Cooke, an English farmer, in confessing his envy of a nonwhite childhood friend. "We have no order. We drift about. We are lost...
...politicians pressed the government to hold an official inquiry into the deaths of Raditsela and Mutsi, the Afrikaner right wing was protesting relaxation of the apartheid laws. The latest move: an end to the plan that would force 700,000 blacks to move from their townships to government-created tribal homelands...
...taken part in the dispute over the control of Ulster and that, in fact, the Tories counted him a dangerous left-winger and a partisan of self- determination. But he was an English earl and a cousin of the Queen, and he died a sacrifice to the kind of tribal hatred he had worked so hard in India to overcome...