The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 4Francis S. Wiggins, 1834 |
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... Native filmmakers . Most compelling , however , is the refusal of all to be confined by Hollywood's representational strategies for depicting Native Americans . In fact , while the vast majority of our contributors refer to Hollywood in ...
... Native filmmakers . Most compelling , however , is the refusal of all to be confined by Hollywood's representational strategies for depicting Native Americans . In fact , while the vast majority of our contributors refer to Hollywood in ...
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... Native Affairs Committee of Enquiry in 1910 , the Controller of Customs , after very careful investigation , estimated that the natives contributed in Customs dues in the year 1909 an amount of £ 27,661 . That the wants of the natives ...
... Native Affairs Committee of Enquiry in 1910 , the Controller of Customs , after very careful investigation , estimated that the natives contributed in Customs dues in the year 1909 an amount of £ 27,661 . That the wants of the natives ...
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... Native people appears to result from the fact that AA is not designed to deal with a number of problems that can trigger substance abuse among Native people. Although AA's Twelve Steps program has a valuable role to play in therapy ...
... Native people appears to result from the fact that AA is not designed to deal with a number of problems that can trigger substance abuse among Native people. Although AA's Twelve Steps program has a valuable role to play in therapy ...
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... Native Americans ever knew of their uses . But even these " rational " therapies often con- tain irrational ... Native Ameri- can herbal remedies . Native American ethnobotany ( the study of plant use ) includes their medicinal uses of ...
... Native Americans ever knew of their uses . But even these " rational " therapies often con- tain irrational ... Native Ameri- can herbal remedies . Native American ethnobotany ( the study of plant use ) includes their medicinal uses of ...
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... native communities that had come to rely on the fur trade. Disease also played an important factor in this transition phase. Native people throughout the Americas used a wide variety of medicines for curing known illnesses, but they had ...
... native communities that had come to rely on the fur trade. Disease also played an important factor in this transition phase. Native people throughout the Americas used a wide variety of medicines for curing known illnesses, but they had ...
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Page 30 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Page 407 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 34 - They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows; "Friends," says he, and neighbours, "the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot...
Page 333 - To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share and treads upon : the oak Shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mould.
Page 257 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 72 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 407 - To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; On the wilderness, wherein there is no man; To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; And to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
Page 370 - No endless night, yet not eternal day; The saddest birds a season find to sing, The roughest storm a calm may soon allay: Thus, with succeeding turns, God tempereth all, That man may hope to rise, yet fear to fall.
Page 333 - Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods, rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured round all Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 334 - The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.