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Many of you may have heard of the Lakota, or at least the larger group of tribes, called the Sioux.
The Lakota are one of many tribes that were moved off their land to prisoner-of-war camps, now called reservations.
In response, three tribes led by the Lakota chief Red Cloud attacked and defeated the US army, many times over.
The problem with treaties is they allow tribes to exist as sovereign nations, and we can't have that.
Tribes lost millions of acres.
I had finished school and I was there to be a tribal attorney and represent tribes across the nation, representing on the Hill, and I saw immediately why racist imagery matters.
He wrote about the scenario in which two tribes of early humans would have come in contact and competition.
Why 12? Twelve apostles, twelve tribes, twelve zodiac signs, twelve months.
There are still dozens and dozens of uncontacted tribes living on this planet.
What this means is that if you could shrink the Earth to the size of a billiard ball, if you could take planet Earth, with all its mountain tops and caves and rainforests, astronauts and uncontacted tribes and chimpanzees, voodoo dolls, fireflies, chocolate, sea creatures making love in the deep blue sea, you just shrink that to the size of a billiard ball, it would be as smooth as a billiard ball, presumably a billiard ball with a slight bulge around the middle.
Here is an example from an op-ed on Thanksgiving, in the Boston Globe a couple of years ago, where the writer wrote, "The Indian life was a difficult one, but there were no employment problems, community harmony was strong, substance abuse unknown, crime nearly non-existent, what warfare there was between tribes was largely ritualistic and seldom resulted in indiscriminate or wholesale slaughter."
Two tribes, Hutu and Tutsi, fought each other.
What are these tribes?
This immense region was populated by nomadic tribes whose lives centered on horses, archery, and warfare.
Tribes constitute thousands of natural experiments in how to run a human society.
It was chock-full of data and figures, I had three pages on matrilineal Maasai tribes, and their sociological patterns.
In the 1960s, psychologist Paul Ekman set about testing this theory by examining hundreds of hours of film footage of remote tribes isolated from the modern world.
Conversely, he ran tests with tribes who had no prior exposure to Western culture.
On the other side of the planet, in the Amazon, we've got many tribes which practice what anthropologists call partible paternity.
On the human side, Walter Starck, an oceanographer, has been painting his wetsuit since the 1970s, and anthropologically, Pacific island tribes painted themselves in bands in a sea snake ceremony to ward off the shark god.
And the greatest and most endangered species in the Amazon Rainforest is not the jaguar, it's not the harpy eagle, it's the isolated and uncontacted tribes.
Why are these the tribes that hide from man? Here's why.
It was surrounded by three isolated tribes and thanks to the Colombian government and Colombian colleagues, it has now expanded.
Not only is this a treasure trove of botanical diversity, not only is it home to three isolated tribes, but it's the greatest treasure trove of pre-Colombian art in the world: over 200,000 paintings.
These are, in fact, different tribes.
Introduce technology to the contacted tribes, not the uncontacted tribes, in a culturally sensitive way.
We've done this now with over 30 tribes, mapped, managed and increased protection of over 70 million acres of ancestral rainforest.
They were serving the forest to protect those uncontacted tribes.
Then one day, an elder gave me a story that went like this: long time ago, there was a big war between tribes.
So, I chose about 35 different groups, tribes, indigenous cultures.
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