Word: tribalized
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...visits to Australia by segregated athletic teams. Perhaps more significantly, Whitlam abruptly abolished the "white Australia" policy that had long discriminated against colored immigrants. He also took steps to improve the lot of Australia's own long-abused aborigines; among other things, he acknowledged aboriginal claims to ancient tribal lands...
...provided a classic case study. "It could have been settled in a week if it weren't for this horde [of reporters]," argued Interior Department Aide Charles Seller. Said Assistant Deputy Attorney General Charles Ablard: "The press has created a climate of undue sympathy for AIM." Sioux Tribal Council President Dick Wilson, whose resignation AIM leaders demanded, excoriated newsmen covering the occupied village for responding "only to dramatic violence and anarchy." Last week this criticism received an unlikely echo-from some of the newsmen on the scene...
Dick Cavett. Anthropologist Colin Turnbull, author of the best-selling account of the destruction of traditional values in a tribal culture, "The Mountain People," is Cavett's main guest. CH. 5. 11:30 p.m. Color...
...typical situation is that of the Osage Sioux. Less than 100 years ago, they owned all of what is now Osage County, Okla., a choice, oil-soaked region. Over the years, through legal maneuvering and corruption in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, non-Indians managed to get onto the tribal rolls and claim land rights. Today many full-blooded Osages are frozen out of oil profits and tribal affairs...
...tactics have produced results. "For 148 years, the tribal leaders have been going to the BIA and trying to get things done," says Owen Echohawk, a Pawnee who is a retired Sun Oil Co. executive. "They could never get in contact with the White House. By taking over that building, AIM ended up negotiating with the White House in seven days." As a result of AIM'S takeover, Nixon has shuffled the top bureaucrats of the BIA. And its budget for fiscal 1974 has been increased by $50 million, to $583 million...