Word: tribe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tribal council is the treaty of 1868, signed by Lieut. General William Tecumseh Sherman for the U.S., and by Chief Barboncito and eleven other tribal chiefs for the Navajos. It allotted the Navajos their scrubby, brush-covered acreage along with treaty rights. Modern Navajo interpretation of the treaty: the tribe can disregard any state or federal law that does not suit its purposes. "A treaty sovereign," argues urbane Joseph F. McPherson. onetime U.S. Justice Department attorney who now works for the Navajos, "has a certain right of consent-and sometimes the Navajo just doesn't consent." Typically, Navajos...
...figures (many of the rest cannot speak English): Chairman Paul Jones and Executive Secretary J. Maurice McCabe. Jones, a taciturn, white-thatched Indian, is a high school graduate. McCabe, a business-college graduate, is a go-getter who, like Jones, is widely respected by businessmen who deal with the tribe...
...French Cameroons Negro who goes to college 40 miles from his native village, flunks his finals and returns home only to find himself saddled with a task for which college did not prepare him. His cousin's wife has run away to her father's tribe in the backwoods and Jean-Marie has been picked as just the right man to go and fetch her back. Off he bicycles into the jungle, trying to feel like a modern conqueror but uneasy at the thought of the reception he may get from the savage backwoodsmen-an uneasiness that deepens...
...Malayo-Polynesian stock. Nor are its plants and animal life. Madagascar is the home of the wide-eyed lemur, of some 800 known varieties of butterflies, nearly 300 kinds of birds, half of which are found nowhere else. It is also the home of the once proud Merina tribe, which conquered the island at the end of the 18th century...
...hold over him by witchcraft nor make his wives sterile, the clan leader thrust his spear shaft into the ground, strode into the mud-and-wattle hut and voted. Among the fertile coffee plantations on the lower slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, lounge-suited leaders of the progressive Chagga tribe queued up at polling stations alongside white planters in khaki shorts and Asian shopkeepers in dhotis...