Word: tribalized
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...constitution sets up a 20-member tribal council, spread throughout eight districts, and provides for the election of a tribal president. Tribal Council President Wilson, in response to AIM's demand that he resign, says that he was democratically elected by the Oglala people. When Wilson ran for office 11 months ago, 2684 people voted out of a reservation population...
...actual powers of the Oglala Council are limited. The Interior Department must approve all tribal resolutions, as it did when Wilson attempted to remove a National Council of Churches representative from the reservation during the third week of the Wounded Knee siege...
Younger Oglalas refer to Wilson and other Council members as "uncle Tomahawks." AIM charges that Wilson has misused tribal funds, and resorted to nepotism to fill tribal posts. The truce agreement signed last Thursday calls for a complete audit of the Council's books...
Despite AIM's apparent distaste for tribal government, the militant group found bureaucracy a necessary tool. After the first two tense weeks, when it appeared that the FBI would move in for a quick bust, AIM settled in for a long stay. The hard part was over-the town was secured, negotiations had begun...
...press, well-versed in military terms after a decade of Vietnam, quickly dubbed the two mile stretch between the roadblocks the "DMZ." In the final two weeks of the siege, a third series of roadblocks, manned by the Oglala Tribal Council, was thrown up outside of the government check-points...