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Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.

In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.

Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.

Tribalism isn't a bad thing. If you're a Facebook user, or Twitter user or Foursquare user or LinkedIn user, those are all tribes... and they may even have sub-tribes. It's not pejorative, it's declarative.

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.

If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.

Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.