Word: tribalized
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...Victim. And there was no sign that the U.S. would be recognized as fighting the people's cause. Of Laos' 2,000,000 inhabitants, only about half are ethnic Lao, who inhabit the fertile river valleys and the seats of government. But the tribal groups in the hills and remote jungle have never knuckled under to any central government. The Kha of the south still offer up human sacrifices at their marriage feasts, traditionally choosing as victim the grandfather of the bride...
...universities that the government has get up for the Africans will be tribal colleges designed to teach the African his place and teach him that his place is inferior," Nkosi said. Nkosi himself has received no formal education beyond the high school level...
...sometimes dug up after three, five or seven years, taken to church, blessed, and reburied with full rites. And among the Azande, a Congo tribe, graves are opened for less innocent purposes. Tribesmen are apparently subject to dreams in which the dead demand a human sacrifice, and when the tribal oracle approves such a dream, a victim is found, his legs are broken, and he is buried alive...
...breasts and declared that a rift might destroy the house of Saud. But last week, when Saud saw that his royal allowance under his brother's new budget was hardly any more generous than last year's, he had had enough. Secure in the knowledge that the tribal chiefs were behind him, the King issued royal decree No. 35, dissolving Feisal's government, and royal decree No. 36, which declared that Saud had personally taken over the premiership and all government power...
...turn for help to the Red Chinese across the border in Tibet. But if India moves too slowly, Red propagandists will exploit the existence of slavery in democratic India. By and large, said Nehru, slaves in NEFA are treated like one of the family. Some have been captured in tribal wars, but others come from within the same tribe and accept slavery to discharge a family debt, or to receive protection from a powerful master, or because they have committed a tribal crime and cannot pay the fine demanded...