EPITHET
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EPITHET.
1. An expression added to a
NAME as a characterizing description, before it in
glorious Devon, after it in
Richard Crookback, with a definite article in
William the Conqueror,
Scotland the Brave.
2. Also
Homeric epithet,
poetic epithet. A formulaic phrase containing an adjective and a noun, common in epic poetry:
grey-eyed Athene,
rosy-fingered dawn,
the wine-dark sea.
3. A word or phrase that substitutes for another:
man's best friend for
dog,
the water of life for
whisky.
4. A word or phrase used to abuse and dismiss:
bastard,
bugger,
shit, especially when used directly (
You shit!,
You son of a bitch!) or as a description (
The silly old cow!).
5. Such a phrase as
that idiot of a lawyer and
a devil of a doctor.
6. An adjective or other descriptive word. See
ANTONOMASIA,
SWEARING.
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NO IDLE PAST: USES OF HISTORY IN THE 1830 INDIAN REMOVAL DEBATES.
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...remove the Cherokee Indians from certain sections...events surrounding removal, which resulted...concern for the Indians' welfare, a desire...against the perceived Indian enemy, and even...by unscrupulous acts. As more and more...Indian policy, the Indian Trade and Intercourse ...
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Opposing forces: (re)playing Pocahontas and the politics of Indian removal on the antebellum stage.
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 12/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the wake of the Indian Removal Policy and the Seminole...starting the "vogue for Indian drama," with Indian Prophecy (1828); however...Written just as the Indian Removal Policy of 1830...given the topicality of Indians in 1836, but the staging...ambassador" and whose ...
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Indian removal; a Norton casebook.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2006; 448 words
; 9780393927252 Indian removal; a Norton casebook. Heidler, David...that trace the evolution of U.S. Indian policy from the colonial era through the years immediately following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The editors (both academics...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Prairie Island Indians seek removal of nuclear waste.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Washington, D.C. -- A representative from the Prairie Island Indian Community was on Capitol Hill on Wednesday urging legislators...Wing community." Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act in 1982 and voted to make Yucca Mountain the site, overruling...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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INDIAN BAND INVESTIGATED IN REMOVAL OF AN ISLAND.(News)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 4/30/1999; 401 words
; The Cheam Indian band is under investigation...investigating the unapproved removal of gravel resources. The...already facing federal Fisheries Act charges from 1998 of harmful...in connection with gravel removal in a nearby channel.
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NO SURGE IMPORTS FOLLOWING RESTRICTION REMOVALS: INDIAN GOVT.
News Wire article from: AsiaPulse News; 3/14/2002; 464 words
; ...including the SSI. While the removal of quantitative restrictions...withstand the impact of the removal of quantitative import controls. "Even after the removal of QRs, protection for the...Development and Regulation Act, 1951, she added. (PTI...
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Forced removal.(removal of Cherokee Indians from their lands)
Magazine article from: Cobblestone; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...of the mistreatment of Indians during this time. Before...by Congress called the Indian Removal Act of 1830, President Andrew...Tens of thousands of Indians had died after exposure...the 1700s, American Indian tribes had been pushed...
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Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America.(To Intermix with Our White Brothers: Indian Mixed Bloods in the United States from Earliest Times to the Indian Removals)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Early Republic; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Our White Brothers: Indian Mixed Bloods in the United...Earliest Times to the Indian Removals. By Thomas N. Ingersoll...perhaps the ultimate act of racial transgression...unremitting hostility between Indians and Africans in colonial...conquer. Study of black-Indian interaction ...
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 "ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)")
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Domesticity and dispossession: removal as a family act in Cooper's: The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish and The Pathfinder.
Magazine article from: ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly); 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Prucha 72). The removal of eastern tribes...dispossession of American Indians as familial act. This defense...separation of Indians from white Americans...in the violent Indian resistance of...between whites and Indians in the American...and destructive removal through the ...
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The Platte Purchase and Native American removal
Magazine article from: Plains Anthropologist; 8/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Native American removal because not only...government's Indian policy, to Indian troubles, and...policy of locating Indians on western lands...relationship between the Indians and the white...Congress passed the Indian Removal Act on May 28, 1830...
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Indian Removal
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...treaties of cession and removal throughout the area...negotiators sought removal of all tribes in...support of this removal policy until January...of solving "the Indian problem." Immediately...100,000 eastern Indians and recommended...signed the Treaty of Indian Springs, ...
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Indian Removal Act (1830)
Book article from: Major Acts of Congress
Indian Removal Act (1830) Sara M. Patterson Excerpt from the Indian Removal Act It shall and may...the United States, if the Indians become extinct, or abandon...solve what some viewed as the "Indian problem"—Native...
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Indian Removal Act
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
Indian Removal Act. In the 1820s, land speculators...Chickasaw, and Seminole Indians of Mississippi, Alabama...McKenney, head of the federal Indian Office from 1824 to 1830, viewing American Indians as children, proposed their...
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Removal Act of 1830
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
REMOVAL ACT OF 1830 REMOVAL...for by the act, the U...tribes in the Indian Territory...Bureau of Indian Affairs...civilizing" Indians. The removal of the 1830s...doom for Indians who remained...demise of the Indian Territory...
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The Removal Cases
Book article from: American Eras
The Removal Cases Sources Expansion...been controlled by Indians. White Americans...hoping to transform Indian towns into cotton...desire to push Indians out of the state...farmers and not act like nomads forever...Cherokees and other Indians from the state...power to deal with ...
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