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25678
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From Ar'abic to Eng'lish |
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Alan Pimm-Smith |
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How many words in the English language can you think of that are derived from Arabic? The immediate answer is, “Quite a few”: mosque and minaret, bedouin and shaykh, caliph and ...
Issue Date: 8 / 2007
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25140
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America’s River: Saving the Mississippi |
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Ted Williams |
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More than any feature on the globe, the Mississippi symbolizes a people. Its watershed stretches from New York to Idaho. For 200 years we have tried and failed to control the ...
Issue Date: 9 / 2006
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24115
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Whither English?: Language Shifts With Cultural Changes |
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Jen Waters |
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The English of today may not be the English of tomorrow. The nature of language is that it''s always changing, says Naomi Baron, professor of linguistics at American University. ...
Issue Date: 11 / 2004
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21395
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Demon, Rebel, Heroine: The Journey of Lilith |
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Helen Mondloch |
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In June 1999, the conservative Christian newspaper published
by the Reverend Jerry Falwell issued a "parents'' alert": steer
clear of the Lilith Fair, a concert series ...
Issue Date: 6 / 2001
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17616
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Living by the Dream: Native American Interpretation of Night's Visions |
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Terri J. Andrews |
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To the Native American, dreams are their own form of reality:
guidebooks for the living. Indians--of yesterday and today--
hold that there are worlds that can be seen and ...
Issue Date: 11 / 1998
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14331
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'The Rain Gods Aren't Listening': Modern Conflicts Threaten Hopi Culture |
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Robert Schmidt |
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The Hopi Indians are one of the oldest societies in North
America, having lived in northern Arizona for more than eight
hundred years. They''ve survived drought, disease, and ...
Issue Date: 12 / 1996
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11964
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The Sky Directs: Mescalero Apache Ceremonial Timing |
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Claire R. Farrer |
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One of my chores was sometimes to awaken Bernard at 4:00 A.M. I would stumble sleepily along as he strode outside with a purposefulness I could not match at that hour. After ...
Issue Date: 7 / 1994
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11052
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Yenaldlooshi: The Shape-Shifter Beliefs of the Navajos |
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James Burbank |
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I live in rural New Mexico just outside of Albuquerque. Last summer I was stringing corral fence; a Navajo friend, Tom Bill, visiting while he attended a powwow in Albuquerque, ...
Issue Date: 11 / 1993
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20683
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For a Little Luck: Making Sense Out of Goose Day |
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Mary Margaret Pecht |
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New comers think it is a joke. It's not, of course, but then few residents of Mifflin County, tucked into the mountains of south-central Pennsylvania, would admit to taking ...
Issue Date: 9 / 1992
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20184
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Powwowing in Pennsylvania: An Ancient Tradition Refuses to Die |
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Thomas E. Graves |
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When the people who would become Pennsylvania Germans emigrated from Europe, they brought two kinds of doctors: One had been tutored in Europe's medical universities; the other ...
Issue Date: 1 / 1992
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18932
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Mystical Circles of Power: The Plains Indian Shields |
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Ronald McCoy |
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From the time of remote antiquity until the late nineteenth century, North America''s Plains Indian warriors--the men of such tribes as the Sioux, Cheyenne, Kiowa, and ...
Issue Date: 2 / 1991
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17984
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The Lore and Language of American Children |
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Sheila K. Webster |
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Children in the United States, like all people everywhere, use folklore to define and to express themselves. And, like all people, children define themselves not only in terms of ...
Issue Date: 5 / 1990
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16769
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American Rites of Passage |
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Roger L. Welsch |
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Cultures throughout time and around the world have established specific landmarks for the lives of their participants, milestones that mark major thresholds between stages of ...
Issue Date: 9 / 1989
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16286
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The Gobbler: Destructive Creations in the Americas |
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Gary B. Palmer |
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The Coeur d''Alene myth of the creation of the tribes by the
dismemberment of the Gobbler, a water-spirit or monster, is
typical of the many myths of destructive creation to ...
Issue Date: 3 / 1989
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14996
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The Endless Chain |
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Roger L. Welsch |
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In this age of space exploration, a computer in every home, and triumphs of reason, Americans are still threatened and thrilled by an object of superstition and fear - the chain ...
Issue Date: 9 / 1988
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14606
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Truth Never Sleeps: Myths of the Omaha |
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Roger L. Welsch |
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Mine is a modest library, but I would be lost without it, for it is my culture's memory. My books remind me of what other people in my culture have thought, learned, or ...
Issue Date: 5 / 1988
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13242
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Fake Ghosts and 'Pretend' Hell |
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Gladys-Marie Fry |
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Historians record that six war-weary, restless, bless, bored youths from Pulaski, Tennessee, organized a social club in the fall of 1865. They vowed to "have fun, make mischief, ...
Issue Date: 10 / 1987
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13433
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Boots on Fence Posts |
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Roger L. Welsch |
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The western hemisphere's largest sand-dune area is Nebraska's Sandhills, a hauntingly vacant landscape that has been described by every novelist treating the region, from James ...
Issue Date: 9 / 1987
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12200
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A Bumper Crop: How Midwestern Farmers Face Trials |
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Roger L. Welsch |
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Mark Twain said it best, but then he said a lot of things best: "The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow." It is not prosperity and plenty that generate laughter ...
Issue Date: 2 / 1987
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12320
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Home Remedies, Herb Doctors, and Granny Midwives |
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Vennie Deas-Moore |
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My mother approaches to relax in the chair behind me. Her hair is silver, but her build and stamina are that of a person years younger than herself. My sons love to visit their ...
Issue Date: 1 / 1987
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