Word: tribalized
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...sculpture works on a startling range of levels: as a poignant memorial to dying primitive cultures, as a combination of place and object (the hanging skins can also be read as a sacred grove), and even as a statement about the museum culture through which most whites experience tribal art. "One of the things that was also in my head," Nancy Graves says, "was how things are related in anthropological collections-the object to the glass case it's shown in. the case to another case, the whole display to the room." But her main preoccupation was with costume...
...response to the financial situation, a group of students in the program has formed the Native American Multi. Tribal Educational Council (NAMTEC). By accepting consulting contracts for Indian education, NAMTEC will be able to contribute part of its fees to Ed School scholarships for Native American students...
...Harvard Inter-Tribal Council, representing the 25 members of the Harvard Indian community, is attempting to get University funding for student recruitment, but progress has been slow...
Descendants of the Indians who greeted white America's ancestors at Plymouth Rock have organized their own somewhat sardonic Thanksgiving. Some 500 Indians will gather at that Pilgrim landfall to demonstrate, for Indian-studies programs in colleges, territorial justice and a return to tribal religions. They argue that Thanksgiving is only the white man's version of a longstanding Indian harvest festival, and the white man has been borrowing from the Indian ever since. Says Rayleen Bay, a Mohawk who helped organize the Indian anti-Thanksgiving: "Plymouth Rock should have landed on the Pilgrims...
...peasantry are concerned, up until recently there haven't been overwhelming sources of peasant discontent except in the tribal areas of the northeast...