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  Aka Hills - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
AKA HILLS, a tract of country on the north-east frontier of India, occupied by an independent tribe called the Akas.
It lies north of the Darrang district of Eastern Bengal and Assam, and is bounded on the east by the Daphla Hills and on the west by independent Bhutia tribes.
The Aka country is very difficult of access, the direct road from the plains leading along the precipitous channel of the Bhareli river, which divides the Aka from the Daphla country.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Aka_Hills   (200 words)

  
 aka | | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
AKA was the abbreviation for the Israel Defence Forces Manpower Directorate before its name was changed to the Human Resources Directorate.
AKA was the designation used by the United States Navy to represent attack cargo ships, prior to 1 January 1969.
Aka est une ville japonaise de la préfecture de Fukuoka et dans le district de Tagawa.
www.babylon.com /definition/aka/All   (461 words)

  
 Aka (Pygmy tribe) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Aka are a wandering African pygmy people who live by hunting.
In 2003, the oral traditions of the Aka were proclaimed one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
Aka fathers have their infant within arms reach 47% of the time.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aka_(Pygmy_tribe)   (228 words)

  
 AKA GALLERY
AKA prioritizes work that is non-commercial in nature and strives to find a balance in its presentation between a number of contending interests including local and national artists, as well as emerging and more established artists
AKA is an artist-run centre which fosters the enhancement and development of a lively and engaged community of artists and audiences.
AKA is the only artist-run centre in Saskatoon that presents all forms of contemporary artistic expression in the visual arts.
www.akagallery.org /mandate.html   (660 words)

  
 Arunachal Pradesh-People-Akas
Where a case of suspected fl magic or murder is brought to the notice of the village council and where the suspect denies the charges, it may arrange an ordeal to decide the case.
To the Akas, the most common way of practicing the ordeal is to ask the suspect to put his hands into boiling water.
The Aka people periodically worship these super natural powers and try to appease them by sacrificing pigs, mithuns, chickens etc, in the form of festival where all the people get together to grace such occasion.
www.webindia123.com /arunachal/people/akas0.htm   (551 words)

  
 Are the men of the African Aka tribe the best fathers in the world? | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
One especially riveting facet of Aka life is that women are not only just as likely as their men to hunt, but are even sometimes more proficient as hunters.
Top jobs in the tribe invariably go to men: the kombeti (leader), the tuma (elephant hunter) and the nganga (top healer) in the community he has studied are all male.
This is one of the most important lessons the Aka brought to Hewlett's own experience of parenting, he says: he's a father of seven kids, aged between 13 and 22, and he has moulded his life and career so he's been able to be around a lot as they were growing up.
www.guardian.co.uk /parents/story/0,,1506843,00.html   (1325 words)

  
 Chapter 8: The Tribes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Basically, each Andamanese "tribe" is merely a collection of independent local groups that speak the same language, share a common culture and tradition and are bound to each other by bonds of family and tradition.
The legend related the belief (common to the tribes living around the A-Pucikwar: the Aka-Bea, Akar-Bale, Aka-Kol and Aka-Kede) that the fire was acquired from the mythical being Biliku at Wot-a-emi on Baratang Island in A-Pucikwar territory.
While one Great Andamanese tribe after the other was contacted, their lands explored and friendly relations established and new diseases spread to all and sundry, the Jarawa remained stubbornly hostile and resistant to all attempts at establishing contact.
www.andaman.org /BOOK/chapter8/text8.htm   (13356 words)

  
 WSU Vancouver Anthropologist Showcased in UK News
According to the data he collected, Aka fathers are within reach of their infants 47 percent of the time—more than any other fathers in the world.
Aka fathers will slip into roles usually occupied by mothers without a second thought and without, more importantly, any loss of status—there's no stigma involved in the different jobs.
There's no such thing as a cot in an Aka camp because it's unheard of for a couple to ever leave their baby lying unattended—babies are held all the time” Hewlett said.
www.wsunews.wsu.edu /detail.asp?StoryID=5278   (348 words)

  
 National Indian Law Library, Indian Law Bulletins, Unreported Case, Amalgamated Industries v. Historic Eastern Pequot ...
It contends that “because the [t]ribe exercised its sovereignty [in submitting to the jurisdiction of the state courts in its contracts with the plaintiff], the court is actually obligated to uphold the tribe's sovereignty by exercising its jurisdiction to enforce the [t]ribe's sovereign choices.” (Plaintiff's memorandum filed 8/19/04, p.
Accordingly, regardless of whether the PEPs were the tribe at the time it entered into the contracts with the plaintiff, they are not entitled to the protections of sovereign immunity and the motion to dismiss is hereby denied as to the counts directed at them.
As tribal councillors of a tribe that has unequivocally waived “any and all sovereign immunity which it currently or at any future time might otherwise be entitled to assert”; (Complaint, exhibit B, ¶¶ 7.a.; Complaint, exhibit C, ¶¶ 3.a.); the PEP councillors have no immunity to assert.
www.narf.org /nill/bulletins/state/unreported/Amalgamted.html   (2887 words)

  
 AKA MOON with Wim Becu’s Ensemble Oltremontano, Tcha Limberger and Vilmos Csikos - Sadler's Wells - May 2006
Aka Moon will be joined by leading performers of renaissaince and early baroque repertoire "Ensemble Oltremontano", plus Tcha Limberger (flute, violin) and Vilmos Csikos (double bass).
Aka Moon have worked with a host of acclaimed artists over an astonishing 13 albums, including guitarists Marc Ducret and David Gilmore, vocalists David Linx and Me'Shell Ndégécéllo, Senegalese percussionist Doudou N'Diaye Rose, chamber ensemble Ictus and legendary Indian musician Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman, amongst many others.
Aka Moon have now turned their attention to a unique project with acclaimed Belgian choreographer and founder member of Les Ballets C de la B, Alain Platel.
www.sadlerswells.com /whats_on/2005_2006/akamoon.asp   (515 words)

  
 The Buddah Tribe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Buddah Tribe was established by Aaron Markaverich aka UNKNOWNSOULJAH in 1997.
The whole term "Buddah Tribe" was created from the Buddhism ideal and a group of individuals who enjoyed certain pleasures of the earth.
Buddah Tribe gamers are currently involved in both CAL and TWL 12v 8v 5v.
www.buddahtribe.net   (507 words)

  
 Tribe’s Blog » about me
Tribe is married to the lovely, and quite talented in her own right, editor extraordinaire, Mrs.
You can see what Tribe has been reading here.
I’ve always enjoyed the hell out of your comments, Tribe, but this is the first time I’ve ever wandered around your crib.
tribe.textdriven.com /blog/?page_id=2   (270 words)

  
 aka KURDISTAN | UNKNOWN IMAGE ARCHIVE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
tribe of kurds preparing to run to mountains when turks will fight for them one more time...
Furthermore, because in that time not everyone had access to horses and horses were considered to be for the wealthy or the nobility; we can say that these soldiers might even be leaders of tribes.
That would mean that there are a lot of tribes located close to each other, and this is not likeley.
www.akakurdistan.com /kurds/identify/archive/identify0011/index.php   (1504 words)

  
 Arunachal Pradesh-People-Akas
Marriage in Aka society can take place either by way of negotiation or by the romantic way of capture.
The marriage by negotiation is generally initiated from the boys side.
The only thing within their power now is to put forward their demand of the bride price to which they are fully entitled.
www.webindia123.com /arunachal/people/akas1.htm   (945 words)

  
 Where`s Cherie?
Aka woman accepts the trekking hats as a gift from Cherie and the twins.
Leighton christened himself King of the Ciao tribe, which prompted all the Ciao Tribe women to spit out whatever beverage they were sipping.
The only thing our guide “Eddy” said (in English) the entire trip was “Eddy not a lady-boy.” The “guides, placed at the front and back of the raft, screamed back in forth at each other yelling commands in Thai as we snaked down the river.
www.wherescherie.com /newsread.php?newsid=373   (866 words)

  
 Myths and Legends of The Andamans: Chapter IV: Myths and Legends
Two men of the same tribe may relate what is substantially the same story, yet each chooses his own words and gestures, and to some extent they may even arrange the incidents differently.
In some tribes there are three or four such places, each of which is claimed as the original home of Biliku by the people living in the neighbourhood.
They have a tradition that this group of tribes was once all one tribe, and that the Andaman Islands were much larger than at present.
sacred-texts.com /asia/tai/tai04.htm   (14006 words)

  
 Andamanese Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Composed by "Chana Lucla," an Andamanese woman of the "Aka Balawa" tribe [Akar Bale], married to a man of the "Aka Kede" tribe.
The two following songs composed by "Toke," an Andamanese of the "Aka Jawai" [Aka-Juwoi?] tribe, resident at "Pewiltaur," are given to show a two-line chorus of peculiar rhythm, used chiefly in the northern part of the Middle Andaman.
There also occur minor differences in these dances among the different tribes, which merely consist, on the men's part, of a different mode of swinging the hands, and on the women's part, of a greater or less accentuation of the curtesy.
www.andaman.org /BOOK/reprints/portman/rep-portman.htm   (4144 words)

  
 Aka Energy Group, LLC, pursuing opportunities in the midstream sector of the energy industry
Aka Energy Group, LLC, pursuing opportunities in the midstream sector of the energy industry
Aka Energy Group, LLC (Aka Energy Group) is an enterprise of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe (SUIT) and under the management of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe Growth Fund.
Aka Energy Group is pursuing opportunities in the natural gas midstream sector of the energy industry.
www.akaenergy.com   (165 words)

  
 Delaware Indians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Delawares are called "Grandfathers" by the other Algonquian tribes because of their belief that the Delawares were the oldest and original Algonquian nation.
Once in Ohio, the Delawares grew into a powerful tribe that could resist the further advances of the Iroquois.
These natives thanked England for the Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited colonists from settling any further west than the Appalachian Mountains, and feared that, if the Americans were victorious, the Delawares would be driven from their lands.
www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=584   (523 words)

  
 Revantusk Tribe - WoWWiki
This tribe of forest trolls has constructed a well fortified village on the coast of the Hinterlands.
Their relation with the other forest trolls of the Hinterlands is mostly in the form of conflict.
The Revantusk Trolls (aka Revantusk Tribe) were a faction introduced to World of Warcraft in Patch 1.5.
www.wowwiki.com /Revantusk_Tribe   (326 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Africa | Logging threatens Pygmies' forest life
Distracted from her search for cures by bees, she marks a tree, so she can later return to collect the honey.
Tamara is from the Ba'Aka tribe, a group of hunters and gatherers, also known as the "pygmies" because of their short stature.
There are around 20,000 members of the tribe inhabiting the rainforests of the south-westerly Dzanga Sangha national park in the Central African Republic.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/africa/2023663.stm   (927 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/aka
But the punch the all-girl trio AKA packs is anything but weak.
Now with a different drummer and frequent shows at PS 14, Churchill's, Felt, and other venues, AKA puts on knockout performances that have bred a loyal following on the estrogen-lacking 305 rock scene.
The group's music is telltale of its influences with an attitude that can only match Alanis's, a catchy sensibility comparable to No Doubt, and heavy guitar riffs reminiscent of Green Day.
www.myspace.com /aka   (873 words)

  
 South Carolina
The tribes of the mighty Iroquois League generally allied themselves with the British and helped Britain gain control of almost all of France's territory in North America.
A new year began when a community fire was lit during the ceremony and a woman from each household took some fire for her hearth.
The tribes of the Southeast were among the first Indians to meet European explorers and settlers.
cherokeesofsouthcarolina.com /sctribes.html   (1820 words)

  
 Browse by Artist: URBAN TRIBE
MW 102 CD "Urban Tribe revive the old school techno ideology with the release of their debut album.
Urban Tribe are a collective of some of the most well-known figures from the Detroit house scene, including Sherard Ingram, Anthony ('Shake') Shakir, Carl Craig and Kenny ('Moodyman') Dixon.
The single made such a large impact that Urban Tribe was picked up by Mo' Wax Recordings to produce the groundbreaking LP The Collapse of Modern Culture.
www.forcedexposure.com /artists/urban.tribe.html   (885 words)

  
 urban tribe
Released to promote Urban Tribe's recent and forthcoming LP's, both the tracks pressed here are 100% exclusive and take their cue from the Derrick May/UR fault line which runs across Detroit.
Sherard Ingram has had one of the most interesting and mysterious careers in Detroit's musical history, spearheading a free-floating project that has at one time or another featured the likes of Carl Craig, Anthony Shakir and Moodymann in its line-up and in recent years has been best known for his spinning moniker Drexciyan DJ Stingray.
Urban Tribe have had seminal releases fostered by the likes of Retroactive (the seminal 'Covert Action'),Plane...
www.boomkat.com /artist.cfm?a=5829   (398 words)

  
 Sound Tribe Sector 9 — The Selekta Interview with Hunter Brown
Sound Tribe Sector 9, an inspirational and expressive live drum and bass band, is a tribe which incorporates history, culture and traditions along with music.
I am running through the train station looking for Dieselboy (aka Damian Higgins, 29) and I'm so late for the interview that I should be wrapping up now and driving him to his gig in Sterling, Virginia.
Sound tribe came from us wanting to express our whole movement within our name, it was important for us to let people know from the beginning that this is a collective vision and expression.
www.selekta.com /content/PPL.TB/soundtribesector9-6-354.asp   (8471 words)

  
 index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Tribes are awarded points for each tribe mate who attends district and council training, along with membership achievements.
To see which PTAs are on your tribe and for tribe updates click on the
Yellow Tribe (aka "The Voices") took top honors at Spring Conference.
www.geocities.com /klew31907   (221 words)

  
 IGN Boards - The official thread of the Survivor IV winning tribe. (AKA the ECW Tribe)
Topic: The official thread of the Survivor IV winning tribe.
If you are in the ECW Tribe please only post in this thread and no other.
If you're in the RAW or SD tribes, however, feel free to post anywhere.
boards.ign.com /wwe_smackdown/b6546/132409867/p1   (896 words)

  
 List of Federally recognized Indian tribes, mainland, Alaska and Hawaii
The list is updated from the one published on December 30, 1998 (63 FR 71941), to include name changes or corrections, and two additional tribal entities that were acknowledged under 25 CFR Part 83.
The listed entities are acknowledged to have the immunities and privileges available to other federally acknowledged Indian tribes by virtue of their government-to-government relationship with the United States as well as the responsibilities, powers, limitations and obligations of such tribes.
Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa
www.cherokeebyblood.com /listtribes.htm   (2277 words)

  
 Doctor Who-Table of stories
B The Daleks (*) aka The Mutants (**)
C The Edge of Destruction (*) aka Inside the Spaceship (**) aka Beyond the Sun
The 1996 television movie Doctor Who (aka Enemy Within) is not indexed.
www.lofficier.com /dwtable.html   (85 words)

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