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Hopi
Hopi Shoshonean-speaking tribe of Native Americans. They are famous for having retained the purest form of pre-Columbian life to have survived in the USA today. Today, c.6000 Hopi live in Arizona.... Read more |
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Santee
Santee ETHNONYMS: Eastern Dakota, Isanyati, Mississippi Sioux The Santee are an American Indian group consisting of the Mdewakanton, Sisseton, Wahpekute, and Wahpeton, four of the seven divisions of the Dakota. The other three divisions are the Teton, Yankton, and Yanktonai. The Santee spoke... Read more |
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Nahuatlan
Nahuatlan , group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan branch of the Aztec-Tanoan linguistic stock of North and Central America. A Nahuatlan language of great historical importance is Nahuatl, or Aztec. A descendant of the now extinct Aztec, the language of the ancient Aztec empire, Nahuatl is spoken... Read more |
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Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel 1928-, American writer, writing in French, b. Sighet, Romania. At 16 he was imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, where his family perished. After the war, he studied at the Sorbonne. In the 1950s he was a correspondent for Israeli, American, and French... Read more |
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Today
TODAY. In 1952, no network television programming was scheduled earlier than 10:00 a.m. (EST). NBC president Sylvester "Pat" Weaver created Today with the idea that people might watch TV early in the morning before going to work and sending their children off to school. The two-hour show,... Read more |
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Yakima (people)
Yakima , indigenous people of North America whose language belongs to the Sahaptin-Chinook branch of the Penutian linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). In the early 19th cent. they lived along the Columbia and Yakima rivers, in central Washington. They then numbered some 1,200. In... Read more |
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Native American reservations
INDIAN RESERVATIONS INDIAN RESERVATIONS. Reservations have been a fundamental aspect of Native American existence for more than two centuries. For some, reservations are a living reminder of Euro-American colonialism and nation building exacted against indigenous people. Others insist that... Read more |
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Diaspora
Diaspora [Gr.,=dispersion], term used today to denote the Jewish communities living outside the Holy Land. It was originally used to designate the dispersal of the Jews at the time of the destruction of the first Temple (586 BC) and the forced exile [Heb.,=Galut] to Babylonia (see Babylonian... Read more |
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Henry Clay Work
Henry Clay Work Little heralded even in histories of music that focus on popular song, American songwriter Henry Clay Work (1832–1884) nevertheless left a legacy that lived on in the memories of audiences and musicians. In the early 1950s, musicologist Richard S. Hill could point to a... Read more |
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Community Health
COMMUNITY HEALTH The term "community health" refers to the health status of a defined group of people, or community, and the actions and conditions that protect and improve the health of the community. Those individuals who make up a community live in a somewhat localized area under the same... Read more |
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A certain people: American Jews and their lives today.
...Vanishing American Jew." Coming barely...the European Jew, and in a period...many American Jews had begun to fear: They, like their European counterparts...the method of their demise would...character of ... |
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Justice, justice: Can it bring disaffected Jews back home?
...disenchanted Jews. "My hope...abandoned their religious...of Jewish life and make its...Jews back to their community...At JUFJ, people are able to live out their values and...organization?' " ... |
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Half-Truths and History: The Debate Over Jews and Slavery
...involvement of Jews in the African...instrument in their political...against black people. One of...effect, today's Jews...acknowledge that certain communities...captured people from ... |
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The Wandering Jews.(Review) (book review)
...which found their way into...Brody, in today's Ukraine...the East as people who know their world well...for Jewish life in post...unwelcome by their assimilated...middle-class people"). He...of Western ... |
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The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America.(Review)
...Silberman's A Certain L-People published...year, The Jew Within seeks...for whom their findings...implications. Their central thesis...personal. Jews today, the authors...the Jewish people. ... |
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Jews Unite in Rally for Soviet Emigration;Diverse U.S. Jewish Groups Unite in...
...many American Jews, reflecting...many American Jews, the opportunity to save another Jew is compelling...For American Jews, there's a...the names of their grandparents...the surge in ... |
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Black Jews: Misunderstood, unaccepted; An estimated 200,000 American Jews are...
...Homicide: Life on the Streets...of African Americans nationwide...recognize their African...minds of people on what is...an African American who is fully...mistake from Americans that the...African-American ... |
 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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SYMPATHY FOR THE JEWS GIVING WAY TO RENEWED...
...and come to life when the conditions...day, since their Zionist friends...which claims Jews are plotting...imagery of the Jews has been exported...because he was a Jew, the floodgates...of the same people who applauded...the ... |
 "The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA)")
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Time of reconciliation for the Poles and Jews.(NEWS)
...to Poland today--open...Nations and the American Jewish Committee...relations today. Our group...every three people in that city...of Polish life. Although...rescue of Jews. Almost 6...10 and 50 people were ... |
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Crypto-Jews find old faith, new sense of self.(The Dallas Morning News)
...to practice their faith and...to research their family roots...ancestors of today's crypto...Region of the American Jewish Congress...day crypto-Jews. "Each individual...that many people have embraced...result of ... |
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