Word: tribe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since his small group was isolated from their tribe, Dr. Ellinger could not study the Abenlens' culture. But it was clear that they are great hunters. They carried hefty spears, and their long arrows were tipped with broad iron heads for killing wild pig. Other arrowheads were hooked and pronged for birds or fish...
...Wanted Your Head. In Kenya Crown Colony last week, whites in their remote farmsteads were jumpy and alert. The Mau Mau, striking from their jungle hideouts, were now concentrating mostly on loyal Kikuyus, members of the sturdy tribe on which the Mau Mau prey for their recruits. Chief Ireigi Karamba was shot in both legs and one arm; two African policemen and a Kikuyu schoolteacher were hacked to pieces. Three more tribesmen walked into the ward of a government hospital at Kiambu, sought out their chief, Hinga Hinga, who was recovering from a Mau Mau ambush, and shot him dead...
...crops and livestock) for crimes committed in their vicinity. Jomo Kenyatta, exiled boss of the Kenya African Union (KAU), was hauled before a British district commissioner formally charged with "managing the Mau Mau." Many white settlers proposed still tougher measures. There was talk of evicting the whole Kikuyu tribe (one million strong) from its tribal lands, and white-whiskered Colonel Ewart Grogan, 78, the oldest member of Kenya's Legislative Council, gruffly suggested: "Hang the Mikuyu in batches of 25 in public, and send witnesses of the executions back to the Kikuyu reserves to spread the joyful news...
Urgent Warning. Hemmed in between black barbarism and white Blimpery, moderates both in Kenya and in Britain worried that repression alone might drive the docile majority of the Kikuyu tribe into the hands of Mau Mau fanatics. In the House of Commons, bluff Jim Griffiths, the former Labor government's able Colonial Secretary, urgently warned: "We are in danger of converting what began as a struggle of all the decent, moderate, loyal people-Africans, Asians and Europeans-against the Mau Mau into a Black-White struggle...
...friends were won over by Claudel's appeals, and at times it seemed as if Gide too would become a convert. One issue that kept them apart was the relation of art to religion. For Claudel, art must bear witness to Christ; he described the whole tribe of modern literary introspectionists as "horrible little terriers who put their paws on one and make one feel the convulsive shivering which animates their wretched bodies." But Gide attributed an independent value to art; in a striking phrase, he wrote that art and religion "must remain . . . perpendicular to each other...