Word: tribalized
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...commission was also frustrated by the tactics of the Smith government, which had agreed to its presence but tried to limit its effectiveness. Smith refused to allow the commission to take a vote among the blacks. He also forbade public meetings to discuss the proposals in the tribal trust areas where most blacks live, and refused to permit a meeting between the commission and long-imprisoned African Leader Ndabaningi Sithole...
...adventurers, as thick as piranhas, swarmed up the Amazon, slaughtering all the Indians that seemed unfit for slavery. When the Indians, who had no concept of regular work, proved uneconomical, black Africans were imported. Indian, white and black blood blended into mulatto culture, which continued to prey on the tribal Indian. Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries in the Mato Grosso, private armies of bandeirantes pillaged for gold, diamonds and slaves. Thousands of Indians who were not killed by gun died because they lacked the antibodies to ward off their invaders' most common illnesses. The Indians retaliated sporadically, piercing...
Whatever road Brazil eventually takes, it will probably be a disaster for the remaining Indians. The Amazon will be further penetrated for its wealth, resulting in the callous elimination of more tribal peoples. It is a familiar story, especially to North Americans, who had the despair of their dead Indians raised to a grand passion in last year's bestseller Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Bodard's brutal epic does even more. It gives North Americans a rerun of their own haunted past as seen through Brazil's uneasy present...
...matched the Pat Nixon traveling road show, which last week wound up a resoundingly successful eight-day, 10,000-mile, jet-propelled good-will tour of the West African nations of Liberia, Ghana and the Ivory Coast. Mrs. Nixon so endeared herself to Africans that she won the ultimate tribal accolade of the Ghanaian chieftains, who told her she had cemented a friendship that "not even a lion could destroy...
...Nixon as a "testimony of the strength, solidarity and permanence of this special relationship between our countries." Afterward she conferred privately with Tolbert for half an hour; among other things, they discussed President Nixon's forthcoming China trip. The fun began the following day, when brightly clad tribal dancers performed for her on the rooftop terrace of the eight-story presidential mansion. To Mrs. Nixon, the dance was extraordinary: the pulsing beat of drums and hollow logs, the rhythmic clacking of ankle shells, the sinuous writhing of bare-breasted women within inches of her chair. She enjoyed herself thoroughly...