Word: tribally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...renovated Victorian warehouse in the Old Port section of Portland, Me., seems an unlikely setting for an investment firm. Instead of having spacious wood-paneled boardrooms adorned with portraits of famous financiers, the modest offices of Tribal Assets Management feature bare brick walls lined with photographs of Indian chiefs in full headgear. But when Tribal Assets speaks, the Passamaquoddy, Chippewa and Cherokee tribes listen. The company has handled investments worth $250 million for Indians across the U.S., bringing Wall Street wizardry to the world of tribal finance...
That is where Tribal Assets comes into the picture. The idea for the 3 1/2- year-old firm came from Thomas Tureen, 42, a graduate of Princeton College and George Washington University Law School, who took up the cause of Indian rights. In a ten-year court fight on behalf of the 4,200 members of Maine's Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes, he won an $81.5 million land-claim settlement in 1980. The Indians then asked him to become their financial adviser. Recalls Penobscot Chief Timothy Love: "We just did not want to dissipate all our money the way some...
...wacky, no-holds-barred goofy kind of outback Australian making his way through the wilds of New York is a charming concept. All sorts of neat possibilities come to mind. Unfortunately, none of them came to Paul Hogan. Instead he offers dumb and offensive jokes about the tribal origins of Blacks and hackneyed scenes of whores and innocents. This is one film that deserves to be transported back to the other side of the earth...
...lifetime Silvano Otieno rose from rural tribal roots to become one of Kenya's top criminal lawyers. But since the thoroughly westernized Otieno's death last December at the age of 55, the question of his burial site has rocked Kenya's legal system, stirred tribal outrage, and raised thorny feminist issues...
While Otieno's body lay in cold storage last week in a Nairobi mortuary, the legal battle raged over whether the lawyer should receive a traditional Luo tribal burial at his ancestral homeland near Lake Victoria or a Christian interment outside Nairobi. His widow Wambui Otieno initially feared she would be made to shave her head and marry Otieno's younger brother if the burial were held according to Luo custom. While her qualms now appear unfounded, she continues to insist that Luo tribal laws are "out of step with civilization...