Applied since Old English to the Holy Virgin, hence many extended usages in plant names, place names, etc., from genitive singularhlæfdigan, which in Middle English merged with the nominative, so thatlady-often represents(Our) Lady's, as inladybug. ...
Her castaway tale captured 19th-century imaginations and inspired the novel 'Island of the Blue Dolphins.' Scholars today are diving deeper into her people's history in California's colonial past.
CHICAGO (CBS) — A Native American woman who worked for the Chicago Blackhawks is suing the organization and its charity, the Chicago Blackhawks Foundation, accusing them of breach of oral contract, fraud and sexual harassment. Nina Sanders filed the lawsuit Tuesday night in the Circuit Court ...
Anatomists see no beautiful woman in all their lives, but only a ghastly sack of bones with Latin names to them, and a network of nerves and muscles and tissues inflamed by disease. — Mark Twain From Letter to the San Francisco Alta California (28 May 1867; published 28 Jul 1867), ...
A racist term for a Native American woman will be removed from nearly three dozen geographic features and place names on California lands, the state Natural Resources Agency announced Friday. California Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2022 signed a bill into law that bans use of the word "squaw" in...
meronym, part name - a word that names a part of a larger whole; "`brim' and `crown' are meronyms of `hat'" metonym - a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing; "Washington is a metonym for the United States government"; "plastic is a metonym for credit card"...
In the mythology of the Navajo of North America, First Man and First Woman, known as Altsé hastiin and Altsé asdzáá, respectively, were beings who prepared the world for the creation of people. Created when the winds blew life into two special ears of corn, the couple led the ...
In the US Janet Mock, among others have blazed the way by being out and public in their defence of being themselves. Recently we’ve seen big names like Lana Wachowski of the Matrix films, Chelsea Manning of Wikileaks fame, Cher’s son Chaz Bono, and Laura Jane Grace of Against Me. ...
the anecdote is merely another story, whereas Kingston’s mother never planned to make a permanent home in America. The mother and daughter’s differing perceptions of home reveal that the line that separates “the native” from “the foreigner” is generational and, often, merely a matter of...
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