Word: tribes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tribes to Citizens. The policy of disorganizing the more than 200 tribes and bands of Amerindians in the U. S. and treating their members individually, like any other racial group of U. S. citizens, was begun by Congress in 1871. The Government then formally refused to acknowledge or recognize any independent nation or tribe within U. S. boundaries. That put an end to treaties, but it was not retroactive. Land that had been acknowledged, in various of the 370 prior treaties made between the U. S. and the Indians, as belonging to tribes of Indians, was allotted to individual Indians...
Twenty-two red legs carrying eleven redskins were throbbing over the 480-mile Redwood Highway between San Francisco and Grant's Pass, Ore. The red lips of Miss Redwood Empire, "little fawn" of the Hopi Indians, greeted John Mad Bull of the Karook tribe when he staggered across the finish line last week-the winner of the marathon. He had covered the 480 miles (longest footrace ever held in the U. S.) in 7 days, 12 hours, 34 minutes. He was rewarded with a $1,000 prize, to which he added $50 to purchase an automobile...
Eight hours later, to Grant's Pass came Flying Cloud of the Karooks to receive $500. And then, while a fellow redskin trotting beside him played old airs on a harmonica, came 55-year-old Melika of the Zuni tribe to receive plaudits befitting a barrel-chested...
...time passes in watching and ignoring the lines thrown out by an army of baiters who spend their energies in endeavoring to get a rise out of him. An adept in the game of political angling, both as baiter and baited, finds a real recreation in dealing with a tribe whose wiles are of a more subtle order. The landing of a brook trout gives infinitely deeper satisfaction than the discomfiture of a poor political fish or fisherman. Further, there can be little doubt that the a worm are far more palatable than the big fish in the governmental swim...
...finest episodes of the book is the one where Senator Buddenbrook finds by chance a philosophical book and becomes enchanted by it-no name is given, but it is unmistakably Schopenhauer's pessimism, entering upon the tired mind of the last member to a hitherto romantic, Victorian, uncomplicated tribe. For, last he is, the last grown-up at least. His son dies as a boy; we accompany him to school, suffer with him the heartaches and the thousand natural shocks that he is heir to. But the first serious attack on Hanno's health severs the thin thread that holds...