Cast: 4m., 6w. An authentic play about Native Americans is a rare find. A play that actually gives children some of the experiences of being a Native American, of sharing in their lives and rituals and dangers, is even rarer. Tribe offers such an experience. The actors initiate each audience member into one of the three tribes—Sioux, Muskogee and Navajo—and help them learn its rituals, share its work, and face its danger. As one director put it, "In this country, the Indian experience is a metaphor for displaced people everywhere—from African slave ships to Jews in Nazi concentration camps to Japanese Americans in American concentration camps. Tribe could work for us not because they [the children] would 'feel sorry' for Indians; rather because of the celebration of the human spirit the play embodies." Open staging. Approximate running time: 1 hour.