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Looking at families rather than individual languages, he found a rate of 30% of families/protolanguages in North America, all on the western flank, compared to 5% in South America and 7% of non-American languages – though the percentage in North America, and especially the even higher number in the Pacific Northwest, drops considerably if ...
The Wayuu are among the peoples depicted in the 1921 documentary Blandt Syd-Amerikas urskovsindianere (Among the Primeval Forest Indians of South America). The feature film Pájaros de verano ( Birds of Passage , 2019) is set on the Guajira peninsula and among the Wayuu in the 1970s.
This addition is sometimes referred to as article four of the treaty, and is recognised as relating to the right to freedom of religion and belief (wairuatanga). [73] Historian Paul Moon has claimed any guarantee of religious freedom implied by Pompallier's action is a myth and that there is a lack of evidence or legal basis to support the ...
While the formal registers draw vocabulary from Sanskrit and Arabic & Persian respectively, the colloquial forms are indistinguishable. Hindi and Urdu are widely spoken among the Indian and Pakistani communities in the United States as a first or second language. Speakers are concentrated in states with large South Asian populations, including ...
Evidence for copper smelting in North America is disputed. Andean civilizations had bronze smelting, discovered by the Moche culture and used by the Calchaquí and Inca; Metallurgy in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica appeared after 600 CE, including alloys of copper; later, bronze techniques were probably imported from South America
Usha Bala Chilukuri [3] [a] was born in 1986 in a suburb of San Diego, California, [6] to Telugu-speaking Indian immigrants. [7] [8] Her father is a mechanical engineer from IIT Madras and a lecturer at San Diego State University, [9] [10] and her mother is a molecular biologist and provost at the University of California, San Diego. [11]
Wayuu (Wayuu: Wayuunaiki [waˈjuːnaiki]), or Guajiro, is a major Arawakan language spoken by 400,000 indigenous Wayuu people in northwestern Venezuela and northeastern Colombia on the Guajira Peninsula and surrounding Lake Maracaibo.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 January 2025. Group associated with the Moorish Science Temple of America Washitaw Nation at the Mardi Gras Indians Super Sunday, New Orleans, 2014 The Washitaw Nation (Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah) is an African-American group associated with the Moorish Science Temple of America who claim to be a ...