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Alamo City Rods custom cars on display at the 42nd Texas Folklife Festival in 2013. The Texas Folklife Festival is an annual event sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio's Institute of Texan Cultures celebrating the many ethnicities represented in the population of the state of Texas. The first Texas Folklife Festival was held from ...
The underlying theme in Senufo daily activities and ritual practices is based on the conflict between the village and the bush. The village represents culture that is well-regulated and related to order and control, while the bush remains unpredictable, haphazard, and full of wild animals and mysterious creatures.
Typically, the Senufo people are studied in three large subgroups that have been relatively isolated. [8] The northern Senufo are called "Supide or Kenedougou", found near Odienne, and who helped found an important kingdom of West Africa and challenged Muslim missionaries and traders. The southern Senufo are the largest group, numbering over 2 ...
The facility, established by the Texas Legislature on May 27, 1965, [3] originally served as the Texas Pavilion at HemisFair '68 before being turned over to the University of Texas System in 1969. UTSA assumed administrative control of the museum in 1973. In 1986, the system designated the institute as a campus of the University of Texas at San ...
Terlingua was the focus of the 2015 National Geographic Channel show Badlands, Texas. [28] The reality show followed the case surrounding the 2014 murder of Glenn Felts. [29] [30] [31] Terlingua was the main filming location for the 1993 Kenny Rogers TV movie Rio Diablo.
Texas Senate Bill 274 to formally recognize the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas, introduced in January 2021, died in committee, [13] as did Texas Senate Bill 231 introduced in November 2022. [14] Texas Senate Bill 1479, introduced in March 2023, and Texas House Bill 2005, introduced in February 2023, both to state-recognize the Tap Pilam ...
Senufo culture is matrilineal, with certain positions such as the artisans being determined by matrilineal inheritance. [7] Of the four Senufo societies, which educate and govern the individual acts of people, the divination governing Sandogo society is, notwithstanding those few men who inherit the position, mostly women. [ 2 ]
The abundant water, plant, and animal life attracted indigenous peoples to the La Junta region for thousands of years. Settled village life, with agriculture supplementing traditional hunting and gathering, began by 1200 A.D. [3] Archaeologists suggest that La Junta was settled as an expansion southeastward of the Jornada Mogollon culture and people who lived around present-day El Paso, Texas ...