Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - W docx

... also occurred elsewhere. Antelope were sometimes individually stalked. Deer were also hunted, al- though they were much scarcer than sheep and antelope. There were occasional communal hunts, but individual hunts were much more usual. The fall rabbit hunt was an important source of food and fur, the jackrabbits and other types being driven into nets of grass twine. Snares and deadfalls wer...

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... industrial arts, the Choctaw were well known for singing and storytelling. In addition to tradi. tional music, the Choctaw enjoy country music. Medicine. The Choctaw believe serious persistent ill- nesses to be a product of spiritual evil often associated with witchcraft. Curing consisted of herbal medicines, ritual puri- fications, and the enlistment of spirit helpers to drive out evil...

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... as a stringently selec- tive acceptance of outside cultural elements and a rejection of outside interference by non-Kickapoo. On a continuum, the Kansas Kickapoo are at the progressive end, the Mexican Kickapoo at the conservative end, and the Oklahoma Kick- apoo in between. It is important to note that the Kickapoo identity is so strong that, except for disputes between individ- uals, th...

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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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... Edward E. Haas, 3-3 1. New Orleans: Louisiana State Museum. Jacobs, Claude F. (198). "Spirit Guides and Possession in the New Orleans Black Spiritual Churches." Journal of American Folklore, 102(403):4 5-6 7. Neumann, Ingrid (1985). Le Creole de Breaux Bridge, Louisiane. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag. Spitzer, Nicholas R. (1984). Zydeco: Creole Music and Cul- ture in Rural Lou...

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... the country, include over 25,000 members. The two largest are the Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma and the Delaware Tribe of Indians, living in northeastern Oklahoma. Linguistic Affiliation. The languages of the three cultures called Delaware are included within the Eastern Algonkian family. The Lenape and the "Jerseys" spoke dialects of the same language, while the Munsee...

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... Lithuanian ancestry are descendants of immigrants who set- tled in the United States between 1880 and World War 1. They came mainly from the eastern sections of the territory that is now the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. Most were Roman Catholics, and they often settled near Polish communities in industrial cities and towns in the Northeast and Midwest where the men worked in th...

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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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... of Georgian Bay in present-day Ontario, Canada. At that time they numbered about thirty thousand, but following smallpox epidemics in the 1630s were reduced to about ten thousand by 1639. In 1648 and 1649 the Huron confederacy was destroyed by the Iroquois in a war for control of the fur trade. After their defeat the Huron dispersed, with some joining other tribes or being adopted by the...

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