Word: tribe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court yesterday refused to consider a petition to determine whether the Wampanoag Indians, who are claiming 11,000 acres of land in the town of Mashpee, Mass., are legally a tribe...
...appellate court last February upheld a lower court ruling that the Indians must first prove they constitute a tribe before they may continue with the land dispute...
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District Court Judge Walter J. Skinner dismissed the Indian's case last year after a jury ruled that the Wampanoags did not meet the legal definition of an Indian tribe...
...civilizations that rise up in vigor, flourish, mature and then fall into decadence. Such theories may sometimes be too deterministic; they might well have failed, for example, to predict such a leap of civilization as the Renaissance. Ultimately, the process of decadence remains a mystery: Why has the tribe of Jews endured for so many centuries after the sophisticated culture of the Hittites disappeared? Richard Gilman can be granted his central point: "that 'decadence' is an unstable word and concept whose significations and weights continually change in response to shifts in morals, social, and cultural attitudes, and even...