Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - T potx

... nearby villages with ties based on mar- riage, presence of the same clans, and trade. Social Control. The leading richmen of a village acted as authorities. Gossip was and still is one of the most effective means of social control. Ostracism, revenge killing, beating, or paying wergild (compensation) could be used if lesser mea- sures failed. If harm occurred within a clan or moiety,...

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... a Basque ethnic church. Con- versely, few Basques have converted to other religions and a number of Basque-Americans attend parochial schools and Catholic universities. 44 Blacks in Canada migrant population, legal marriage and nuclear families pre- dominate. In all Caribbean migrant groups, regardless of class status, a significant incidence of marriage or relationship fail- ure is app...

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... key role in planning and organizing the set- tlement and development of this region. An important factor in the growth and development of the church and the Mor- mon settlement of the West was the large influx of migrants assisted by the church's Perpetual Emigrating Fund. Con- verts were actively sought and encouraged to migrate to Utah. It is estimated that between 1850 and 190...

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... occupied by the members of several families who lived in close proximity to one another, but who main- tained a high level of autonomy nevertheless. Each extended family served as a redistribution network in which the family head and his wife served as foci. Men who demonstrated su- perior hunting, managerial, and leadership skills, and who were married to women of commensurate ability,...

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... MEASUREMENT CONVERSIONS When You Know Multiply By To Find LENGTH inches 2.54 centimeters feet 30 centimeters yards 0.9 meters miles 1.6 kilometers millimeters 0.04 inches centimeters 0.4 inches meters 3.3 feet meters 1.1 yards kilometers 0.6 miles AREA square feet 0.09 square meters square yards 0.8 square meters square miles 2.6 square kilometers acres 0.4 hectares hectares 2.5 acres square...

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... province of Quebec has influenced the spoken language, whereas isolated areas such as Cheticamp, on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, have maintained a more archaic form of speech. In the Moncton area, constant intermingling between Acadians and English speakers has spawned a hybrid form of speech, known as Chiac. In French-language schools, modem standard French is taught, and students...

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... well as an underworld Land of the Dead, both of which housed the souls of dead humans and animals. It was from these worlds that the spirits were invited to participate in the ceremonies held in their honor in the human world. Bibliography Fienup-Riordan, Ann (1983). The Nelson Island Eskimo. An- chorage: Alaska Pacific University Press. Lands, Margaret (1984). "Nunivak Eskimo.&q...

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... the community and for joint rituals for intermarriages. Socialization. During the communal period, there was broad resistance to public schooling, which was seen as as- similative at best and a tool of the Antichrist at worst. In the 1920s some public schools were burned, but after provincial government reprisals the community gradually accepted and then embraced public education. Freedomit...

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... a Finnish Immigrant Family in Timmins. Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario. Roninila, Mike (1987). "Language Retention in the Finnish Identification of Winnipeg's Finnish Population." Siirtolai- suus-Migration 2: 6-1 1. GERMANS. In 1986, an estimated 896,720 Canadians claimed German ethnic ancestry. Germans are the third larg- 104 Eastern Shoshone Eastern Sh...

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... with a mem- ber of the spouse's lineage; failure to do so brought retribu- tion from the women of the offended lineage in the form of the destruction of the offender's property. Domestic Unit. Each household consisted of an extended family of between five and thirty persons. Each extended fam- ily constituted an economic unit whose members cooperated in hunting and agric...

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