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Wissler, Clark
(Encyclopedia) Wissler, Clark, 1870–1947, American anthropologist, b. Wayne, Ind., grad. Indiana Univ., 1897, Ph.D. Columbia, 1901. At first a teacher of psychology, he became interested in…Kopit, Arthur
(Encyclopedia) Kopit, Arthur, 1937-2021, American playwright, b. New York, New York, as Arthur Lee Koenig, Harvard Univ. (BS, 1959). Kopit’s parents…Tohono O'Odham
(Encyclopedia) Tohono O'OdhamTohono O'Odhamtōhōˈnō ō-ōˈdəm [key] or PapagoTohono O'Odhampăpˈəgōˌ, päˈ– [key], Native North Americans speaking a language that belongs to the Uto-Aztecan branch of the…Aymara
(Encyclopedia) AymaraAymaraīmäräˈ [key], Native South Americans inhabiting the Lake Titicaca basin in Peru and Bolivia. The originators of the great culture represented by the ruins of Tiahuanaco…Poem: Indian Summer
Poem 70 Poem 72 Indian Summer These are the days when birds come back, A very few, a bird or two, To take a backward look. These are the days when skies put on The old, old sophistries…American Indian Glossary
/* /*]]>*/ From AIM to xat A-B | C-H | I-M | N-S | T-X Black Hills, South Dakota Related Links Native American Tribes of the Great PlainsAmerican Indian TribesAmerican Indians by the…Brewer's: Red Indians
(of Newfoundland). So called because they daub their skin, garments, canoes, weapons, and almost everything with red ochre. “Whether it is merely a custom, or whether they daub their skin…Brewer's: Indian Arrowroot
The root which the Indians apply to arrow-wounds to neutralise the venom of the arrow. They mash the meal, and apply it as a poultice. (Miller.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E…Brewer's: Indian Drug
(The). Tobacco. His breath compounded of strong English beere, And th' Indian drug, would suffer none come neere. Taylor, the Water Poet (1630). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E…Brewer's: Indian File
(In). One by one. The American Indians, when they go on an expedition, march one by one. The one behind carefully steps in the footprints of the one before, and the last man of the file…Trending
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