• Despite the fact, that you can easily comply withVenezuelan women just about everywhere on the planet, the bulk of all of them are still in Venezuela and also Latin America. (brillianthighschools.org)
  • In Latin America the triumph of the Cuban revolution is still generating expectations, and thousands of young people join the ranks of the revolutionary parties and movements. (nodo50.org)
  • With the exception of Mr. Yánes, whose admirable sketch of the relation of the Republics of Latin America to the general subject has been printed elsewhere,' the chief participants in the conference based their remarks on brief notes. (google.com.my)
  • and what makes this fact the more remarkable is, that they have been established in Central America from immemorial time. (google.ch)
  • First, at the time of European contact, all but the simplest indigenous cultures in North America had developed coherent religious systems that included cosmologies-creation myths, transmitted orally from one generation to the next, which purported to explain how those societies had come into being. (nationalhumanitiescenter.org)
  • Large indigenous Americans populations still fearful and uneasy with them blocked them from going westwards. (phdify.com)
  • This decision created a lot of anger and was one of the reasons behind the American War of Independence, because being colonists, they did not like their movement being hindered and thought nothing of the indigenous populations. (phdify.com)
  • Through a comparative analysis, the duality that characterises Pico's verse will be highlighted, and will place him in a tradition of indigenous poets who demonstrate that duality is a defining feature of Native American poetry. (lu.se)
  • In academic writing about Native American literature, one will find a variety of nomenclature to describe America's indigenous. (lu.se)
  • tinent of America immigrants or autochthones? (google.ch)
  • The Indians had been hunting, fishing, and gathering in America not for centuries but for millennia, and there were still as many buffalo on the plains and salmon in the rivers as there could be. (moderjord.org)
  • This distribution is such that there is no reason for supposing that the negro is less fitted permanently to occupy at least the warmer parts of North and South America , than is the white race to retain possession of their more temperate portions. (tufts.edu)
  • While the ocean surface north and northeast of Australia is typically 28 to 30°C or warmer, near South America the Pacific Ocean is close to 20°C. This warmer area of ocean is a source for convection and is associated with cloudiness and rainfall. (bom.gov.au)
  • But slavery is not a uniquely American characteristic. (fee.org)
  • Throughout, the authors seek to understand and explain the Mormons by contextualizing them in both mainstream America and contemporary Christianity. (booksandculture.com)
  • W isely, given their general audience, the authors begin with some of the more exciting aspects of Mormon history and the church's distinctive cultural characteristics before working their way into the theological issues that set Mormonism apart from the rest of Christianity. (booksandculture.com)
  • Thus you might start by describing the most salient and definitive characteristics of Indian spirituality and its most basic similarities to and differences from Euro-American Christianity, about which many students may also have only the vaguest notions, so your remarks will do double duty. (nationalhumanitiescenter.org)
  • Negative influences, such as deep sea mining and pollution, in the Indian Ocean have led the IUCN to identify its first endangered species of the deep, the Scaly-foot snail . (discovery.com)
  • As a result, the voyage of the St. Peters triggered one of the most catastrophic epidemics recorded on the North American continent. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • North of there the California stratas begin again. (gutenberg.org)
  • Over the decades, our work has helped put criminals behind bars, break up trafficking networks, improve law enforcement, change behaviour and save countless animals from a cruel fate.The fauna of the State of California may be the most diverse in the United States of America. (paritaexport.eu)
  • The share of the Romance nations in shaping the history of America is ill understood and less appreciated. (google.com.my)
  • That celebrated craniologist, indeed, went far ahead of his contemporaries, and divided the aboriginal American races into two families-the Toltecan natives and the barbarous tribes- which differed, he contended, as essentially in their physical as in their moral characteristics. (google.ch)
  • Teaching about Native American religion is a challenging task to tackle with students at any level, if only because the Indian systems of belief and ritual were as legion as the tribes inhabiting North America. (nationalhumanitiescenter.org)
  • When you take up Native American religion in class, you could spend hours describing the specific beliefs and rituals of the major tribes spanning the North American continent, but this barrage of information might leave your students feeling overwhelmed and confused. (nationalhumanitiescenter.org)
  • Treaty violation, however, does not nullify their legality, and Native American tribes to this day still live under the laws and restrictions that have controlled their sovereignty for hundreds of years. (lu.se)
  • The publication of a text so carefully constructed with legally non-binding terms and saturated with use of the passive voice was, to many Native Americans, unsurprising in the context of dealings between Native American tribes and the Federal Government. (lu.se)
  • At first glance, his odd title for a technical lecture might have been about dinosaurs, but true to his intentions, George wove a fascinating story about the details and evidence concerning ancient earthwork construction and rock engineering practices on the North and South American continents dating back several thousand years. (nae.edu)
  • As the red spots grow, the bumps fill with opaque liquid with a center depression (characteristic of smallpox). (amynowak.com)
  • It has been suggested that officials in the USA government purposely ordered its army to distribute blankets infested with the smallpox virus to Indians. (amynowak.com)
  • The conquest of the New World by the Spaniards, and its gradual occupation by successive races of white men, have checked the development, but not destroyed the primitive institutions of the Indians. (google.ch)
  • In addition, hypothermia is a characteristic of particularly severe sepsis. (medscape.com)
  • Venezuelan new brides possess Indian, Spanishand also various other roots. (brillianthighschools.org)
  • This is a bit surprising considering that all of their relatives possess this characteristic. (discovery.com)
  • The variety of terms and lack of consensus in Native American literary studies does highlight the reality that this nomenclature is a postcolonial issue. (lu.se)
  • Peter Farb ( 25 July 1925 - 8 April 1980 ) was an American author , anthropologist , linguist , ecologist , naturalist and spokesman for conservation, and free lance writer for 30 years in the areas of the natural and human sciences. (wikiquote.org)
  • There is nothing in our experience we can compare it to," says W. Raymond Wood, an anthropologist who has studied Plains Indian cultures. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • This "us and them" mentality is a holdover from the nineteenth century, when the Latter-day Saints constituted a decidedly unwelcome minority in America. (booksandculture.com)
  • Non-Hispanic Black, Hispanic/Latino (Hispanic) and American Indian/American Native persons have experienced higher rates of disease, hospitalization and death compared with non-Hispanic White persons. (cdc.gov)
  • Dozens of Indians died, as did whites who had not been inoculated, and the stench of decaying bodies inside the post was palpable 300 yards away. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Example: It wasn't only whites who possessed black slaves in early America. (fee.org)
  • The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians. (idislikeyourfavoriteteam.com)
  • Racial disparities in breast cancer incidence and mortality have been well documented in the past, particularly among African American women, who have been found to have a lower incidence of breast cancer compared to white women, but a higher overall mortality [ 4 , 5 ]. (cdc.gov)
  • The traditions of the Indians are much too vague and conflicting to resolve a doubt, much less to establish a theory, in the matter of their ancestry. (google.ch)
  • are now found upon separate continents, while others are very limited in their range. (tufts.edu)
  • Their ideas of how to extract wealth from the newly found land in North America determined how successful their colonies and settlements were. (ipl.org)
  • I noticed, because I was looking before I went to India, and when I was first there, for a survey of Indian foreign policy, and actually didn't find one- I found a number of books on certain aspects of Indian foreign policy and a number of essays that were very worthwhile, but nothing recent that tried to integrate the various bits and pieces. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • There is no authenticated instance, we believe, of any Indian tribe or family having lapsed into 'a state of nature. (google.ch)
  • Like all other cultures, the Indian societies of North America hoped to enlist the aid of the supernatural in controlling the natural and social world, and each tribe had its own set of religious observances devoted to that aim. (nationalhumanitiescenter.org)
  • There was not a section of land unknown to some Indian tribe, and there was nowhere, from the slowly shifting arctic ice shelves to the blowing sand dunes of the Colorado Desert, where they did not go. (moderjord.org)
  • Detail from Joseph-François Lafitau, Moeurs des sauvages amériquains comparées aux moeurs des premiers temps (Customs of the American Indians compared with the customs of primitive times [in Europe]), 1724. (nationalhumanitiescenter.org)
  • As even this brief account indicates, many key Indian religious beliefs and practices bore broad but striking resemblances to those current among early modern Europeans, both Catholic and Protestant. (nationalhumanitiescenter.org)
  • Important as it is to appreciate the affinities between the religious cultures of Indians and early modern Europeans (and Euro-Americans), there were real differences that must be kept in mind. (nationalhumanitiescenter.org)
  • There are few more striking examples of its applicability than the way in which the Scottish society, in increasing flux from the early eighteenth century onwards, provided a class of men of enterprise that played a role, entirely out of proportion to its small numbers, in the promotion of mercantile and industrial concerns not only in Scotland, but also in North America, the West Indies, and the East. (electricscotland.com)
  • We cannot honestly regret their extermination, but we at least do justice to the manly characteristics possessed, according to their lights and education, by the early Redskins of America. (idislikeyourfavoriteteam.com)
  • Thank you very much, and it is kind of you all to get up early in the morning to subject yourselves to some thoughts on Indian foreign policy. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • The earliest traces of human habitation in the continent are now tentatively dated between 60,000 and 50,000 years ago. (historyworld.net)
  • Effort is rarely made to present the history of the American Continents as an orderly process of development. (google.com.my)
  • from which circumstance it has been inferred by the Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, and others, that they must necessarily have passed into the American continent either by some Arctic route, or by the Aleutian Isles in the depth of winter. (google.ch)
  • The fauna of the United States of America is all the animals living in the Continental United States and its surrounding seas and islands, the Hawaiian Archipelago, Alaska in the Arctic, and several island-territories in the Pacific and in the Caribbean. (paritaexport.eu)
  • The skull, while clearly old, did not look Native American. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • For example, Venezuelan women owe their particular area to the eyes of their Native American ascendants. (brillianthighschools.org)
  • On the contrary, Native Americans perceived the "material" and "spiritual" as a unified realm of being-a kind of extended kinship network. (nationalhumanitiescenter.org)
  • It might be more profitable to begin by promising yourself to avoid any approach to Native American spirituality that is too exhaustively detailed. (nationalhumanitiescenter.org)
  • We honor elements of The Native American tradition, while we sadly lament that they couldn't be assimiliated. (idislikeyourfavoriteteam.com)
  • We honor the legacy of the Native Americans, we apologize for taking their land, and occasional success story/casino shows we are righting wrongs. (idislikeyourfavoriteteam.com)
  • See if he doesn't capture, way back when, the duality of racism/respect for Native Americans way back when. (idislikeyourfavoriteteam.com)
  • It has been estimated that three-and-a-half million Aztec ( Nahua Indians) died, along with countless other Native Americans. (amynowak.com)
  • Through the use of several analytic methods and postcolonial theories, this thesis will analyse representations of language, place, and identity, and argue that they are constructed in the border between Native American and American consciousness. (lu.se)
  • Firstly, Tommy Pico's Nature Poem will be read alongside a selection of Native American poets. (lu.se)
  • Long Soldier's work demonstrates the complicated relationship between Native American poets and the English language, utilising linguistic and poetic methods to disrupt the hierarchical power of English in public discourse. (lu.se)
  • However, the diversity of Native American poets is considered in the literature. (lu.se)
  • As the poet Heid E. Erdrich (Ojibwe) wrote, "there is no such thing as Native American poetry. (lu.se)
  • For continuity, in this thesis the term Native American will be used. (lu.se)
  • The history of Native Americans after the arrival of the pilgrims in 1620 is one of disenfranchisement, genocide, and forced migration. (lu.se)
  • In 2009, the United States Federal Government issued an "acknowledgement and apology," acknowledging a "long history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies" in its dealings with Native Americans (Congress.gov). (lu.se)
  • The "Indian" is work of colonial imagination, conjuring up a variety of racist and sexist characteristics. (uregina.ca)
  • Gerald Vizenor describes the word Indian as "a colonial enactment, not a loan word, [whose] dominance is sustained by the simulation that has superseded the real tribal names" (11). (lu.se)
  • From 1519 to about 1920, the continent of North America suffered a cataclismic loss of human life via the variola virus. (amynowak.com)
  • Some people use Black History Month as an occasion to skewer America for slavery. (fee.org)
  • The results that it embodies, however, encourage the hope that a conference on the history of America in the broad sense may become a permanent feature of the sessions of the American Historical Association. (google.com.my)
  • American history does not consist solely of the history of the United States, and the history of the United States does not consist solely of the history of the 'Thirteen Colonies' and of what has proceeded from them. (google.com.my)
  • The moment in which the English or the Anglo-Americans arrive on the scene furnishes an excuse for ignoring the history of all areas not under their control. (google.com.my)
  • In our schools and colleges, in the textbooks and in the courses dealing with 'American' history the work of the Spanish, the Portuguese, and the French is regularly treated as a series of more or less detached episodes possessing a sort of picturesque interest quite unimportant in character. (google.com.my)
  • That the history of the Spanish, the Portuguese, and the French in America possesses an interest and a significance of its own, entirely apart from its relation to the 'Anglo-American' element, is an incontestable fact which the special nature of the present meeting of the American Historical Association affords an excellent opportunity to emphasize. (google.com.my)
  • No field of history is more neglected and none is more fascinating and rewarding to the student than the history of Spanish and Portuguese colonization in America, of the development of the Latin-American Republics, and of the problems that have arisen out of conditions so like and yet so unlike our own. (google.com.my)
  • During its progress reputations were made that will live for ever in American history, and many remarkable men came to the front. (fullbooks.com)
  • As Canada's high commissioner to India from 2006 and 2008, a nonresident ambassador to Bhutan and Nepal, David, as is characteristic of this talented diplomat, immersed himself in all aspects of India-its history, its politics, and its culture-while he was posted there. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • The trend towards the internationalisation of psychology has led to the history of American psychology being supplemented by other local histories. (bvsalud.org)
  • The most important is that Indians did not distinguish between the natural and the supernatural. (nationalhumanitiescenter.org)
  • individual owners in most states freed slaves in large numbers…Freedom was secured for the large majority of Americans, and important actions were undertaken in the service of freedom for the rest. (fee.org)
  • Although visual examination and microscopy are helpful in detecting the characteristic grains and orienting the diagnosis, it is important to culture them to identify the causative organism properly. (who.int)
  • In 1981, Kaposi sarcoma seen in AIDS (KS-AIDS) in America was identified in 3 reports of Kaposi sarcoma as an original defining element of what later became known as AIDS (plus an important editorial and a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report bulletin). (medscape.com)
  • Elderly American man of Armenian origin with characteristic violaceous plaques of the legs, a good example of classic Kaposi sarcoma. (medscape.com)
  • It was a remarkable transformation, and in no field can its workings be observed more clearly, and in such illuminating detail, than in the British North American colonies which were eventually to confederate. (electricscotland.com)
  • At FortUnion, the post at the junction of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers, traders bungled an attempt to inoculate Indian women living there with scabs taken from a victim. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • I intended to proceed to Colonia del Sacramiento, situated on the northern bank of the Plata and opposite to Buenos Ayres, and thence, following up the Uruguay, to the village of Mercedes on the Rio Negro (one of the many rivers of this name in South America), and from this point to return direct to Monte Video. (infidels.org)
  • She, an African-American journalist commissioned by The New York Times, has arranged an interview with a store owner in Chicago. (nytid.no)
  • But did they perceive how extensively European disease would decimate the Indian population? (amynowak.com)
  • however, Oropsylla montana has been incriminated as the primary vector for this disease in North America. (medscape.com)
  • Using the population-based CCR, we identified cases of American Joint Commission on Cancer (AJCC) stages 1-3 first primary female invasive breast cancer (ICDO-3 sites C50.0-C50.9) [ 25 ] diagnosed between January 1, 2000 through December 31, 2010 and reported to the CCR as of January, 2012. (cdc.gov)
  • Migration is the movement of people from one area to another, either city to city, or continent to continent. (phdify.com)
  • In the American caste system, the so-called rank is what we call race, the discrimination of people on the basis of appearance. (nytid.no)
  • Yet these beliefs have profoundly contradicted Americans' understanding of themselves and their professed belief that "all men are created equal. (hachettebookgroup.com)
  • The Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River set up in 1830 gradually disappeared as more settlers were allowed to enter it with impunity. (phdify.com)
  • The recent U.S. National Academies report, Assessment of Intraseasonal to Interannual Climate Prediction and Predictability, was unequivocal in recommending the need for the development of a North American Multimodel Ensemble (NMME) operational predictive capability. (ametsoc.org)
  • Guideline development involved a working group of 26 pediatric gastroenterologists, adult gastroenterologists, allergists/immunologists, and pathologists from 16 countries across five continents. (medscape.com)
  • Former Canadian High Commissioner to India David Malone gives a comprehensive survey of contemporary Indian foreign policy. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • Ever since the first slave ship arrived in Jamestown in the Colony of Virginia in 1619, the racist assumptions underlying the ideology of white supremacy have remained, for the most part, just below the surface of American political life. (hachettebookgroup.com)
  • Caste, Wilkerson notes, has been the operating system for economic, political, and social interaction in America from the very beginning. (nytid.no)
  • To help solidify control of the Western part of the continent, the United States sought to resolve competing claims with the United Kingdom over Oregon 1846, which satisfactorily went the United States' way, as the United Kingdom withdrew from all of its possessions in North America outside of Canada. (phdify.com)
  • The Ostlings argue that theology is no longer the primary motivator of religious America, and they organize the book accordingly. (booksandculture.com)
  • This demand was difficult to meet, since Scotland, with no colonies of her own, was precluded from trade with the flourishing English colonies in North America and the West Indies. (electricscotland.com)
  • In the US, Martin Luther King - leader of the civil rights movement - is assassinated, and the demonstrations against the invasion of Vietnam further polarize North American society. (nodo50.org)
  • That was the title of George F. Sowers' keynote lecture at the 1979 Annual Convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers. (nae.edu)
  • They were developed jointly by the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. (medscape.com)
  • For some time, I went down to the edge of the Hudson, to run along a path that then reached north to 125th Street and now extends up to the George Washington Bridge. (hudsonreview.com)
  • He chooses for the purpose an experienced navigator, Abel Tasman, who is instructed to sail far south in the Indian Ocean and then to strike east, hoping to discover whether there is an open passage to South America. (historyworld.net)
  • an ocean basin on the opposite side of the America continents. (discovery.com)
  • Traders and Indians alike were eagerly awaiting the arrival of the steamboat St. Peters , churning upriver from St. Louis to pick up the furs and drop off its annual load of supplies from Pratte, Chouteau & Company, the western branch of John Jacob Astor's former American Fur Company. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Long before the first European ship dropped anchor off the shores of the New World, the western continent was the home of the American Indians. (moderjord.org)
  • To be sure, America is not a perfect country, nor is any one of the other 196. (fee.org)
  • Cloudiness and rainfall north of Australia are enhanced, typically leading to above average winter-spring rainfall for eastern and central parts of the country, and a wetter start to the northern wet season. (bom.gov.au)
  • The principal ones were with Mexico in 1846-8 and the ones referred to as the Indian wars. (phdify.com)
  • An NDN person in occupied America": Tommy Pico and Place. (lu.se)
  • Along the way, an appalling number of black and white Americans paid the ultimate price to get rid of slavery, and even then, the struggle against Jim Crow persisted for decades. (fee.org)
  • Every place the explorers went, they met Indians in hunting parties, farming towns, fishing villages, and further to the south, in cities with multi-storied dwellings and fantastic pyramids. (moderjord.org)
  • Divining America is made possible by grants from the Lilly Endowment and the National Endowment for the Humanities. (nationalhumanitiescenter.org)