Word: tribalized
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...orange carpet and a purple blanket-to receive clarity of mind and body. The warriors, perhaps 150 of them, seemed perfectly willing to die. With the sun setting behind their backs and the chill wind whipping up puffs of dust, they formed a semicircle and watched as the tribal fathers emerged from the steaming lodge...
...demands: the return by the U.S. Government of territories in both Dakotas, Montana and Nebraska; the investigation of long-broken treaties and a full-scale probe by Congress of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. But then Means shifted the main focus to his demand for the ouster of Sioux Tribal Council President Dick Wilson. That issue proved to be more slippery than the larger questions over which the battle was first joined...
...Sioux, as was the 20-member council, which he heads. But AIM has accused Wilson-a mixed blood who was previously a plumber-of nepotism, political patronage and corruption in his administration. Reported TIME'S Woodbury: "Accounting is lax, and the considerable amount of money that passes through tribal hands, often for loosely defined programs, makes corruption almost a way of life in Indian government...
Even so, it is far from clear whether the rest of the Sioux are as unhappy as Means with Wilson's leadership. The Interior Department maintains that disputes among the Sioux are their own problem. As for Wilson, his tribal council urged that the Justice Department clear AIM militants off the reservation...
...made him nearly invisible. But recently the Indian has begun to emerge from behind the misty stereotype of smoke signals, tepees and Tonto. A chorus of angry voices has been making many demands: they call for everything from control of reservation lands and mineral rights to restoration of ancient tribal customs and the power to specify curriculums in Indian grade schools. The move to self-determination is characterized in the new cry: "Indian identification of Indian problems...