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Countries and Their Cultures: Western Shoshone

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the culture of Western Shoshone people who lived in northern Nevada and northwestern Utah.. Gives basic information on topics such as geography, ethnic makeup, languages, symbolism, economy, food, customs, social...
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All Refer Reference: Niger: Introduction & Country Profile

For Students 9th - 10th
Good resource for studying about the African country of Niger. Learn meaningful facts about its geography, culture, economy, government, and more. You can view a map and a flag, too.
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All Refer Reference: Mauritania: Introduction & Country Profile

For Students 9th - 10th
Presented is a guide to extensive information about the economy, geography, people, government, and military of African country of Mauritania.
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Countries and Their Cultures: Mande

For Students 9th - 10th
"Mande" is a term that has been used to identify the culture that embraces the western third of Africa's great northern savanna and coastal forests. The Mali Empire was the source of the Mande diaspora; therefore, in a broad sense,...
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Countries and Their Cultures: Yoruk

For Students 9th - 10th
The Yoruk are an ethnic-tribal grouping found widely throughout Turkey but primarily along the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts. The Yoruk are not linguistically distinct from most of the rural populations among whom they live. They speak...
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Countries and Their Cultures: Pende

For Students 9th - 10th
The Pende occupy a territory that extends from the banks of the Lutshima, a tributary of the Kwilu, to the Kasai. The last colonial census (1959) indicated that there were 200,000 western Pende and another 40,000 Pende in Kasai, the...
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Countries and Their Cultures: Jews of Algeria Settlements

For Students 9th - 10th
The Jews of Algeria are a very diverse cultural group, owing in part to Algeria's turbulent history. Now they constitute the most Westernized Jewish community originating from North Africa and are established mostly in France. Less than...
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Countries and Their Cultures: Bamileke

For Students 9th - 10th
Bamileke is a collective term referring to a loose agglomeration of some 100 kingdoms or chiefdoms of the eastern Grassfields in the Western Province of Cameroon. These kingdoms have similar cosmology and social and political structures;...
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Countries and Their Cultures: Aimaq

For Students 9th - 10th
In western Afghanistan and far eastern Iran, "Aimaq" means "tribal people," which distinguishes the Aimaq from the nontribal population in the area, the Persians (Fariswan) and Tajiks. Most of the population of live in Afghanistan; those...
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Countries and Their Cultures: Assyrians

For Students 9th - 10th
Ancient Assyrians were inhabitants of one the world's earliest civilizations, Mesopotamia, which began to emerge around 3500 B . C . The Assyrians invented the world's first written language and the 360-degree circle, established...
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Countries and Their Cultures: Alur

For Students 9th - 10th
The Alur speak DhuAlur, a Western Nilotic language of the Lwo Group. They live in northwestern Uganda and in the neighboring parts of northeastern Zaire. Some two-fifths of the Alur live in Uganda and three-fifths in Zaire. The family is...
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Countries and Their Cultures: Karadjeri

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the culture of the Karadjeri of Western Australia.
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Countries and Their Cultures: Lozi

For Students 9th - 10th
The Lozi consist of a number of interrelated ethnic groups located along the Zambezi River in Barotse Province of western Zambia. The term "Lozi" refers both to the Lozi proper and to those groups that have become subject to and...
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Countries and Their Cultures: Lunda

For Students 9th - 10th
"Lunda" is the most widely used English term to refer to literally hundreds of social groups whose oral histories link them in varying ways to a far-flung empire that controlled trade and tribute in much of Central Africa from the...
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Countries and Their Cultures: Nandi and Other Kalenjin Peoples Kinship

For Students 9th - 10th
Nandi; about one-third of all Kalenjin and second-largest of the Kalenjin subgroups, they are geographically the most centrally located. The Kalenjin live mainly in the highland of western Kenya, although the Sebei and some Pokot are...
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Countries and Their Cultures: Igbo

For Students 9th - 10th
Igbo-speaking peoples can be divided into five geographically based subcultures: northern Igbo, southern Igbo, western Igbo, eastern Igbo, and northeastern Igbo. Each of these five can be further divided into subgroups based on specific...
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Western Square Dancing: Square Dance History in the u.s.

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains the history of square dancing and the progression of the fad across the country.
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Countries and Their Cultures: Mossi

For Students 9th - 10th
The Mossi are the most prominent ethnic group in the modern nation of Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta). They are also well known in the anthropological literature as a society with an especially high rate of labor migration to...
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Countries and Their Cultures: Tswana

For Students 9th - 10th
Batswana are divided into a number of subgroups or "tribes", There are approximately twenty-five totems, which crosscut "tribal" boundaries. Although Batswana received Christian missionaries in the early nineteenth century and most...
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Countries and Their Cultures: Songhay Marriage and Family

For Students 9th - 10th
The Songhay are the fourth-largest ethnic group in Niger, West Africa. There are also considerable Songhay populations in Mali and Benin. They are closely related culturally to the Zarma. The Songhay are spread over a large area of...
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Countries and Their Cultures: Rukuba

For Students 9th - 10th
The Rukuba live in central Nigeria, on the High Plateau at some 30 kilometers west of the town of Jos, capital of Plateau State. They are one among the numerous small groups inhabiting the region. These groups are, by African standards,...
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Countries and Their Cultures: Luyia

For Students 9th - 10th
"Abaluyia" refers to the nation, tribe, or ethnic group, Omuluyia" to an individual, and "Luluyia" to the language they speak. There are seventeen Luluyia-speaking sub-nations in Western and Nyanza provinces of Kenya. The Abaluyia are...
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Countries and Their Cultures: Iteso

For Students 9th - 10th
The Iteso comprise the second-largest ethnic group in Uganda and a significant portion of the non-Bantu-speaking minority in Kenya's Western Province. For the Iteso of Kenya, there are substantial studies of social organization, social...
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Countries and Their Cultures: Gusii

For Students 9th - 10th
The Gusii are divided into seven clan clusters: Kitutu (Getutu), North Mugirango, South Mugirango, Majoge, Wanjare (Nchari), Bassi, and Nyaribari. Gusiiland is located in western Kenya, 50 kilometers east of Lake Victoria. Since...

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