Word: tribesman
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From West Virginia he headed into Oklahoma where he spoke at such places as Nash, Jet, Cherokee. Ponca City. At Pawhuska, Kaw Indians were joined by Osages and Pawnees in putting on war paint & feathers to welcome their fellow tribesman. Along the way were barbecues, stomp dances, W. C. T. U. receptions...
...them at night, gossiped with the herdsmen in English, kept an ear tuned for mutterings in the native tongue which he gave no indication of understanding. Having heard all he wanted, last week Federal Agent J. A. Street doffed his disguise, went to one Golney Seymour, 21-year-old tribesman, accused him of the murder. Retaining the traditional calm of his fathers, Apache Seymour confessed that he had started out with Miss Schmerler to the dance, said that when he had offered her affection she had started throwing rocks at him. Then he raped her, stabbed her, choked her, struck...
...camel race in the Sahara and thought it was great sport. Why not a Grand Prix of the Sahara? he asked his friends in Africa, and with their encouragement picked out a course, put up prizes: 2,500 francs to the winner and some gold jewelry (no tribesman is much interested in money by itself); second prize, 1,500 francs and silver jewelry; third prize 600 francs and a certificate. During his foreign tour, Mr. Harlan died, and since on his deathbed a man's mind is always full of the last thing he has been doing, he kept...
...love -the instinct, probably more impressive than any other human trait, that keeps the tribe marching toward life, fighting the jungle in the days when the river dries up, when the game gives out. The photography is repetitious of other African researches, but lively, imaginative. Best shot: a tribesman running through a burning forest, carrying the dead body of his chief...
...distant wilderness. A hungry native, coming by chance upon a bowl of plantains or beetle larvae or some such delicacy, had thanked his tutelar deity for the good fortune and had dined with gusto. But his gastronomic joy was short-lived. A few hours later, a horror stricken fellow tribesman informed him that he had violated tabu, that he had eaten of the dish destined for the alimentation of his holiness the king. The news struck he poor victim like a charge of the Four Horsemen. He turned pale. His knees shook. He seemed visibly to wither away. Shortly...