Extractions: Zaire Zaire From the northern end of Lake Tanganyika to Lake Edward are a number of groups that share cultural and political features among themselves and with the interlacustrine Bantu-speaking peoples of Rwanda, Burundi, southwestern Uganda, and northwestern Tanzania. Most live at an altitude of 1,400 meters or more with a handful sited in the lowlands. Whereas all are cultivators, those in the highlands proper also raise cattle, primarily for milk and milk products; the few lowland groups that are unable to raise cattle have turned, like their forest neighbors, to hunting and fishing. The highland Bantu-speakers have known, possibly as early as the fourteenth century, the presence of centralized states ruled by members of specific descent groups thought to have come from the interlacustrine states to the northeast. Traditionally, only one of their number, the Furiiru, were organized into a single, relatively small state. More often there were several states, for example, among the Shi, that despite their small size carried the heavy apparatus of royal family, court officials, and hierarchy of chiefs. A degree of ethnic consciousness overriding membership in specific states developed during the late 1950s and early 1960s. The clearest example of the situational character of this consciousness came in 1964 when Shi irregulars joined the national army in opposing a rebel group passing through their territory because the rebels were perceived as outsiders led by Kusu.
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Extractions: A NEW VISION FOR U.S.-RUSSIAN RELATIONS (House of Representatives - October 02, 2001) [Page: H6112] The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 3, 2001, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. WELDON ) is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I rise tonight to lead a Special Order that we expect will involve a number of our colleagues who just returned last evening, as I did, from a whirlwind 5-day trip around the world to try to deal with the issue of, not just the terrorism that occurred on September 11, but to improve and change our relations with Russia. Mr. Speaker, this trip was not scheduled after September 11, but rather had been scheduled in August, when our Russian friends contacted me and asked me to bring over some ideas that I had to improve the relationship between our two countries and to give them some of the ideas I was working on as the basis for the upcoming Bush-Putin summit and to change direction in our relationship. The preparation of a document entitled ``A New Time, a New Beginning'' was, in fact, the subject of that presentation; and the delegation that traveled with me that I had the pleasure of chairing, along with the gentleman from Texas (Mr.
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Index.html TRIBAL africaN ART MOSSI (also see related Bwa, Bobo and Nunuma) The first Mossi Empire was founded by invaders from northern Ghana. Today, the Mossi are the largest tribe living in Burkina Faso. tribe of Inland West africa to have a centralized governing used by the conquered peoples to honor the spirits of and clans of the indigenous tengabisi inhabitants own the masks, http://www.zyama.com/mossi
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Extractions: For Bantam fowls see POULTRY. BANTIN, oi BANTING, the native name of the wild ox of Java, known to the Malays as sapi-utan, and in zoology as Bos (Bibos) sondaicus. The white patch on the rump distinguishes the bantin from its ally the gaur (q.v.). Bulls of the typical bantin of Java and Borneo are, when fully adult, completely black except for the white rump and legs, but the cows and young are rufous. In Burma the species is represented by the tsaine, or hsaine, in which the colour of the adult bulls is rufous fawn. Tame bantin are bred in Bali, near Java, and exported to Singapore. (See BOVIDAE.) William of Orange were landed here in 1697. There are several islands, the principal of which are Bear Island and Whiddy, off the town. Ruins of the so-called fish palaces testify to the failure of the pilchard fishery in the 18th century. BANTU LANGUAGES. The greater part of Africa south of the equator possesses but one linguistic family so far as its native inhabitants are concerned. This clearly-marked division of human speech has been entitled the Bantu, a name invented by Dr W. H. I. Bleek, and it is, on the whole, the fittest general term with which to designate the most remarkable group of African languages. 1 Bantu (literally Ba-ntu) is the most archaic and most widely spread term for men, mankind, people, in these languages. It also indicates aptly the leading feature of this group of tongues, which is the governing of the unchangeable root by prefixes. The syllable -flu is nowhere found now standing alone, but it originally meant object, or possibly person. It is also occasionally used as a relative pronoun that. that which, he who. Combined with different prefixes it has different meanin~s. Thus (in the purer forms of Bantu languages) muntu means a man, bantu means men, kintu means a thing, bintu things, kantu means a little thing, tuntu little things, and so on. This term Banlu has been often criticized, but no one has supplied a better, simpler designation for this section of Negro languages, and the name has now been definitely consecrated by usage.
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Extractions: Public Broadcasting's Services to Minorities and Other Groups (1997) Many public television and radio stations devote a substantial portion of their resources to create and broadcast programs to meet the needs of their communities and audiences. In contrast to commercial stations, which mostly undertake local production to the extent they can sell it to advertisers, public stations create local programs to the extent they determine a community need, often guided by the advice and suggestions of a Community Advisory Board. The board typically includes representatives of all ethnic and racial groups living in a station's service area. The following state-by-state snapshot of some of the activities and programs undertaken by public radio and television licensees to serve diverse audiences highlights the kinds of efforts pursued by public broadcasters to serve and enrich their own communities. It is not a definitive guide to such efforts and is by no means exhaustive, either in its listing of stations providing such services or in its descriptions of the programs and services provided by any one station to minority and diverse audiences. To jump ahead to a particular state, click on the name below.
Extractions: Cambodia, Burma, Tibet, and Mongolia The principle behind this page and this index is that of China as the "Middle Kingdom", with the rest of the world arranged around it. This works pretty well for the countries listed, as does the Chinese five element theory. For Earth (yellow), in the Center, is China itself. For Water (black), in the North, is Mongolia. For Metal (white), in the West, is Tibet. For Fire (red), in the South, are Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Burma. And for Wood (green/blue), in the East, are Korea and Japan. Anomalies here are the Southeast Asian group, of Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Burma, and then Japan and Mongolia. Thailand (with Laos), although seeking and accepting a diploma from China for its ruler as a king ( wang ), nevertheless is largely a sub-Indian rather than a sub-Chinese culture, with Theravada Buddhism and a Sanskrit -derived alphabet. Burma, which was occasionally invaded from China, and sometimes under Chinese suzerainty, was also a sub-Indian civilization. Cambodia, with Champa , at first developed quite independenly of China, under Indian influence from Indonesia, later, like Thailand, came under Chinese influence. These Theravada states are thus all colored more orange than red, to indicate their cultural status in relation to India rather than China.
The Needs Of Minority And Diverse Audiences -- 1998 Report and Heart of the Earth, a weekly program featuring Native Americans and indigenous peoples from around the world. http://www.stations.cpb.org/system/reports/minority/1997/min25.html
Extractions: Public Broadcasting's Services to Minorities and Other Groups (1997) Many public television and radio stations devote a substantial portion of their resources to create and broadcast programs to meet the needs of their communities and audiences. In contrast to commercial stations, which mostly undertake local production to the extent they can sell it to advertisers, public stations create local programs to the extent they determine a community need, often guided by the advice and suggestions of a Community Advisory Board. The board typically includes representatives of all ethnic and racial groups living in a station's service area. The following state-by-state snapshot of some of the activities and programs undertaken by public radio and television licensees to serve diverse audiences highlights the kinds of efforts pursued by public broadcasters to serve and enrich their own communities. It is not a definitive guide to such efforts and is by no means exhaustive, either in its listing of stations providing such services or in its descriptions of the programs and services provided by any one station to minority and diverse audiences. To jump ahead to a particular state, click on the name below.
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