Radama I
Radama I , c.1793-1828, founder of the kingdom of Madagascar. He succeeded (1810) his father, Andrianimpoinimerina, as king of Merina, a small kingdom on the central plateau of the island. With British aid, he trained his army along European lines and brought (1817-24) most of Madagascar under his rule. He encouraged Western learning and Christianity. His widow, Queen Ranavalona I, succeeded him. He is often called Radama the Great.
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Tennessee child custody case highlights Mixtec migration, language
Newspaper article from: News From Indian Country; 1/9/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Country 01-09-2006 An 11-year old Mixtec girl, Linda Barrera Cano, caught in...satisfied as long as the child is kept in the Mixtec culture," said attorney Jerry Gonzales...Lebanon is home to a compact, thriving Mixtec community that numbers several hundred...
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Mixtec Indians Seek Better Life in the U.S.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 10/20/2002; 700+ words
; ...the doctor says I can't," he says in Mixtec, his native language -- the only language...beans, jalapenos ..." Bautista, a Mixtec Indian from a poor village in Oaxaca...the Americas," said Hugo Morales, the Mixtec founder of Radio Bilingue, a Fresno...
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SEEING AND THE MIXTEC SCREENFOLDS
Magazine article from: Visible Language; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...15th- and 16th-century Mexico (the "Mixtec screenfolds") in order to explore the...how were acts of seeing represented in Mixtec texts, and how do these depictions relate...problems arise when Western scholars "read" Mixtec screenfolds using techniques learned from...
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Mixtec immigrants in California face language and cultural barriers
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 6/23/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...California, and speaks only her native Mixtec language. The schools that her children...speak Spanish, said Timoteo Mendoza, a Mixtec working as an outreach coordinator for...district hired Mendoza 10 years ago, when a Mixtec child was beaten up in school and didn...
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MIXTEC LANGUAGE, CULTURE IS FEATURE OF EXCHANGE AGREEMENT
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 5/4/2006; 700+ words
; ...the indigenous Indian language known as Mixtec, spoken by many immigrants in the U...study revealed that new arrivals spoke the Mixtec language indigenous to Oaxaca and valued...culture over the more familiar Mexican. "Mixtec students speak an indigenous Indian language...
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Mixtec and industry - a winning combination.(Mixtec Philadelphia Pty Ltd.)(Brief Article)
News Wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence; 3/3/2005; 700+ words
; ...Minerals Gazette - ABIX via COMTEX) Mixtec Philadelphia can now lay claim to the...Queensland. Bill Baguley, the MD of Mixtec Philadelphia, which - despite the second...agitators. Publication Date: February 2005 MIXTEC PHILADELPHIA PTY LTD: BIRLA All copyright...
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Mixtec Transnational Identity.(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin Bookwatch; 1/1/2006; 472 words
; Mixtec Transnational Identity Laura Velasco Ortiz...0816523274 $50.00 1-800-426-3797 Mixtec Transnational Identity examines in detail...professor- researcher Laura Velasco Ortiz, Mixtec Transnational Identity covers such topics...
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Radio Gives Mixtec Indians Their Own Voice.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 10/20/2002; 700+ words
; ...achingly beautiful anthem of the lonely Mixtec farm worker floats from the Fresno studios...song opens "La Hora Mixteca" ("The Mixtec Hour"), which is actually four hours...radio, advice and news in Spanish and Mixtec. The host of the show, Filemon Lopez...
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Mixtec Codex.(comsological religious calendar)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: School Arts; 5/1/2000; ; 620 words
; The Mixtec culture supplanted the Zapotec culture that was centered in Monte Alban. The Mixtec were skilled in the arts of sculpture, ceramics...filled in with color resemble decorations on Mixtec pottery. Questions How is this page from a...
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Ethnohistorical evidence for inbreeding among the pre-Hispanic Mixtec royal caste
Magazine article from: Human Biology; 6/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...CHRISTENSEN Abstract Pre-Columbian Mixtec social organization was distinguished...over time. KEY WORDS: CONSANGUINITY, MIXTEC, MESOAMERICA, MEXICO, OAXACA, PRECOLUMBIAN...considered here, the combined pedigree of the Mixtec ruler Lord 8 Deer Jaguar Claw, we lack...
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Mixtec
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Mixtec ETHNONYMS: Cloud People, Ñ uu Savi Orientation Identification. Speakers of Mixtec live in the southern Mexican states of Oaxaca, Guerrero, and Puebla. Mixtec speakers usually refer to themselves as " Ñ...
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Mixtec architecture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Mixtec architecture. A Meso-American people, the Mixtecs lived in a region in modern Mexico alongside the Pacific shore-line. Unlike...
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Amuzgo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...the home of mestizo, Afro-Mexican, Mixtec, and Nahua populations. Linguistic Affiliation...reconstructed from tangential sources. From Mixtec codices it is known that around the year a.d. 1000 the Mixtec king Eight Deer was recognized as a Mixtec...
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Triqui
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...century, the Triqui, together with the Mixtec, were subjugated by the fifth Aztec monarch...They witnessed the wars between the Mixtec kings of Achiutla and Tuxtepec and probably...agrarian communities subordinate to the Mixtec ceremonial centers. Triqui communities...
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Downs, Lila
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...Scottish-American father and a musical Mixtec Indian-Mexican mother, she spent her...documentary when he met and fell in love with a Mixtec-speaking Indian woman who sang part...in a mix of Spanish, English, Maya, Mixtec, Nahuatl and Zapotec, all with a three...
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