Word: amerindian
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...grass-tufted upcountry savannas of southern Guyana yield profits only to the rawest, roughest kind of rancher, but Ben Hart was that sort of man. Immigrating from South Dakota in the early 1900s, he married a half-breed of Amerindian-Scotch parentage and fathered six boys as tough as he. They tended their herds, sleeping in tree platforms at night to fend off attacks by pumas, and they carried water in buckets for the shade trees they planted. Before Hart died in 1961, they put together a spread of 185,000 leased acres, with buildings and ranch houses worth...
Ragtag Collection. Driving to the district capital of Lethem, the ranchers and some of their Amerindian employees struck at the airfield, where a 600-yard-long block of buildings houses the police station, power plant, post office and even a slaughterhouse. A cop ran from the station house, wrestled with Jim Hart for Hart's rifle; another rebel shot the cop from behind. When the shooting stopped, five policemen were dead. John Hawkins, a Protestant missionary from Texas, rushed to the airport and ran into Jim Hart. "We've talked enough -we're taking action," Hart shouted...
...Henry Wassen, Curator of Goteborgs Ethnografiska Museet in Sweden, will lecture on "The Antropological Outlook for Amerindian Medicinal Plants" at 9:15 a.m., May 18, in the Lecture Hall of the Geological Museum...
...black, white) flag. Thus-with the Duke and Duchess of Kent looking on as Britain's official representatives-did the tiny, oven-hot colony mark its independence last week and start life anew as the nation of Guyana (pronounced guy-an-uh, meaning "land of waters" in an Amerindian dialect) and as the 23rd member of the British Commonwealth...
...years living among these people to analyze their speech phonetically. Once the language is reduced to the Roman alphabet, the natives must be taught painstakingly to read it. New languages expressing the Logos of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John for the first time last year embraced eleven of the "Amerindian" aggregation--Malisect, Potawatomic, and Menominee among the more obscure...