Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.
What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.
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.
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.
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.
All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can.
In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.