Word: tribally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wherever I went among the Satellites I found one custom universally observed. Evidently it is a survival of some ancient tribal ceremony. Upon every occasion of rejoicing or lamentation, it doesn't matter which, the Satellites gather together to perform the mysteries of the "Passingout". For this purpose they immerse themselves in an occult liquid which possesses the incompatible qualities of both water and fire, for it looks like the one but acts like the other. What I have seen of this religious ceremony of the "Passingout" gives me excellent grounds for belief in the transmigration of souls...
This prodigious increase in the native population is the real problem of the country. White men are driven to the cities and even out of the country by cheap colored labor, and the blacks, no longer engaged in inter-tribal warfare, are now increasing six times as fast as the whites...
...history of the federal government's relations with the American Indians is not flattering to American pride. Robbery of oil lands and gross frauds by traders have not been seriously checked by the government. Worst of all, ancient tribal customs and religious rites have been forbidden, until at last public opinion has been tardily aroused to the injustices of the government. The latest move, sponsored by the American Red Cross, seeks to modernize the Indian without reforming him, to bring him civilization but to leave his tribal customs...
...opinions are, there is another attitude which can be taken as to the interaction of war and religion. In a recent volume Mr. Bakeless of Williams writes: "It is but a few years since . . . Russian, Austrian, and German troops were marching in the names of gods as truly tribal as Allah and Yahweh ever were, . . . and the Jehad, or Holy War, was proclaimed in the Moslem world. Even a "D man" in History 1 recognizes that it was religion that set Europe aflame with hostilities after the Reformation and sent war and misery to the Indian empires of the West...
Although attempts were being made to patch the matter up by payment of "blood money", in accordance with a tribal custom, members of the Italian colony became irate, declared that the engineer had not had a fair trial. Some of them became disgusted, left the country...