The NTCL should become an annual event to celebrate the role that tribalism plays in the history and everyday life of Liberians. I personally would call this event THE GRAND PALAVAR and I would hold this during the month when THE PORO SANDE have their mass graduations of youth. This could become a colorful NATIONAL HOLIDAY that could attract tourist from all over the world and unique to Liberia being the only nation in Africa never conquered by Europeans, giving each tribe a purity not found in any other part of Africa save Ethiopia. I hope that the NTCL begins the folkways project initiated under Tubman and headed by Bai T. Moore to preserve and chronicle the evolution of tribalism in Liberia. LOGANTOWN is supposedly on the actual area when the first major Palavar was held by KING LONG PETER and others to sign agreements with ACS that laid the foundation for the Liberian state. This area should become a national park preserved. The NTCL could become very important in locating these historical landmarks throughout Liberia of which parks and other institutions should be created to preserve Liberia tribal past. Besides old Krutown there was a area designated on the original Ashmun map of Monrovia that designated a tribal area in Monrovia called Golatown. There should be a marker that designates this area if it can be located. I believe it is the area where the cental Catholic Church is located. All over the world Catholics built their churchs on areas considered sacred by traditional peoples to end paganism. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GOLATOWN should be a question the NTCL takes seriously. When Tubman brought dancer Pearl Premice to Liberia in 1947 she held to make famous the Vai Dance movement that have been the foundation for all African dances performed throughout the world. Their is a richness in Liberian Tribalism that needs to research further, not only for the sake of the intellectual health of the nation but for tourism as well. Liberian tourism is dominated by promotion of its great beaches but because of the uniqueness of each tribe, preserving that legacy could enrich the commercial health of the nation as well. Tribes are also important in feeding the nation because farming and land usuage still remains their major source of power. Their is a tendency to negate Tribalism as irrelevant in this global economy but preserving the environment, indigenious foods, commercial products and culture will still depend upon tribalism. I hope the National Tribal Council of Liberia is taken very serious because the future of the nation depends upon them.