Some of the aboriginal people of the northernmost islands of this country speak Ainu
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Japan's hidden people: Ainu try to keep ancient ... - CNN.com  Feb 9, 2015 ... Indigenous people  In 2007 the UN General Assembly passed the ... by the Hokkaido Government in 1984 put the Ainu population on the island at just over 24,000. .... in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost and second-largest island. ... yet hunting was the norm (some visitors may be put off by the caged...
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Who are the Ainu people? | Heritage of Japan  The Ainu are an indigenous ethnic group of people who live in Hokkaido in Japan ... tribes and Andaman Islanders with haplogroup D that suggests that some of the ... populations to the northernmost populations of the Japanese islands (fitting .... the Holocene northward to northeastern Asia and further to northern America.
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Ainu facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Ainu  The Ainu are a group of people in northern Japan whose traditional life was based on a ... Only about 18,000 Ainu now live on Hokkaid, the northernmost island of ... Some use the term "Kurile Ainu" to refer only to the Ainu who occupied the ... They had extensive contacts with native populations on Sakhalin and along the...
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Japan Recognizes Ainu as an Indigenous People, but What Comes ...  Jul 3, 2008 ... NIBUTANI, Japan  The Ainu had lived on Japan's northernmost island for centuries, calling their home Ainu Mosir, or Land of Human Beings.
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Ainu - Introduction, Location, Language, Folklore, Religion, Major ...  Countries and Their Cultures ... As with indigenous (native) peoples in the United States and many other nations, ... Hokkaido, one of Japan's four main islands, is 32,247 square miles (83,520 ... Few people now speak Ainu as their primary language. ... In some cases, a young man visited the family of a woman he wished to...
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Kuril Islands - Wikipedia  The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (/krl/, /kjrl/, or /kjril/; Russian:  ... Japan claims the two southernmost large islands (Iturup and Kunashir) as part ... The disputed islands are known in Japan as the country's "Northern .... all rights over Sakhalin in exchange for Russia ceding all of the Kuril Islands...
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The Dialect of the Appalachian People  In Scottish dialect the word is inguns; however, if our people are permitted ... (How soon is supposed to be obsolete, but it enjoys excellent health in Lincoln County.) ... Raven I. McDavid notes, "The speech of the hill people is quite different from ... 3 H. L. Mencken said of Appalachian folk speech, "The persons who speak it...
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Naskapi - Wikipedia  The Naskapi (Nascapi, Naskapee, Nascapee) or Naskapi Innu are the Innu First Nation ... Innu people are frequently divided into two groups, the Montagnais who live .... Although officials of Indian and Northern Affairs were certainly aware of the .... The outcome of those negotiations was the Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act...
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Some Norwegian Characteristics - VictorianVoices.net  land into a country of which it may truly be said, 't there is no .... ing of these dwellers in the North. El have ... the lndvik Fjord', in the beautiful light of a ... nice to hear him sing same of the Josie of his ... delle Landet "' (Yes, we love this land "l,.
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Table of Gods - Eskimo North  Brigantia/ Bridget/ Brigit, Pan-Celtic, The goddess of the seasons, doctors smiths, poets, & women in ...... Janavasita, Buddhist, A minor goddess affiliated with knowledge or the control of knowledge ...... Alignak, Inuit, A god of the moon, storms, earthquakes & tides ... Aningan, Inuit, A moon god called Igaluk in Alaska.
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Prince Edward Island essays  The Micmac Indians who were related to the Maritime Archaic Indians ... They called the island Abegweit, meaning home cradled on the waves. They built...
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Northern Mariana Islands - Wikipedia  The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is an insular area and commonwealth of the United States consisting of fifteen islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. ... He landed on Guam, the southernmost island of the Marianas and claimed the archipelago for Spain.
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Kuril Islands dispute - Wikipedia  The Kuril Islands dispute also known as the Northern Territories dispute is a dispute between Japan and Russia and also some individuals of the Ainu people over sovereignty of the South Kuril Islands. The disputed islands, like other islands in the Kuril chain that are not in dispute, were annexed by ... Although Japan occupied parts of Russia's Far East during the Russian Civil...
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Fuji San - Sacred Sites  While there is no such thing as a 'most sacred' mountain in Japan (or the world for that ... The soaring peak has been venerated as the home of a fire god, later the ... that the name Fuji derives from (1) the language of the Ainu shamanistic people ... meaning of "everlasting life" is an interepretation by the Japanese language.
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Jeopary Questions page 1284 - AMERICAN HODGEPODGE ...  DIBS!: The Russians & Japanese both want these northern islands that were first occupied by the Ainu  WOMEN IN ... ISLANDS: Politically, this Greek island is divided into 4 departments: Canea, Lasithi, Rethymne & Iraklion  "P"OTPOURRI:...
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Basques - Wikipedia  The Basques are an indigenous ethnic group characterised by the Basque language, .... However, the Navarrese territory north of the Pyrenees remained beyond the ... Currently about 33 percent of the population in the Basque Autonomous .... As with many European states, a regional identity, be it linguistically derived or...
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J! Archive - Show #4833, aired 2005-09-21  Sep 21, 2005 ... PALINDROMIC WORDS .... The name of this sacred mountain is said to be derived from the Ainu word for "fire"...
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Attu Island - Wikipedia  Attu (Aleut: Atan) is the westernmost and largest island in the Near Islands group of the Aleutian ... The population in the 2010 census was 20 people, all at the Attu Station, ... Although Attu Island is the westernmost body of land east of the International Date Line its .... The Second World War peace memorial on Attu Island.
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Gichigami - Sacred Great Lakes - Home of the Anishiabe Ojibwe at ...  Lake Superior or Gitchigumi (meaning Great Water or Great Lake) is the ... On an island just outside Thunder Bay, now known as "Isle Royale", there lived a great tribe of Ojibwe Natives. ... Gitche Gumee Agate and History Museum ... Information, news, resources and data about the Great Lakes Native peoples from GLIN.
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Nunavut Territory Established: Inuit Gain New Homeland April 1 ...  The creation of the Nunavut territory, where 82 percent of the people are Inuit, ... the central and eastern area of the NWT where the majority of residents are Inuit. ... The agreement, the largest native land claim settlement in Canadian history, ... The entire country of Canada, as well as much of the world, will be eagerly...
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Native American Languages  Similarities among words in these languages are too pervasive and systematic ... In Central Alaskan Yup'ik, an Eskimo-Aleut language of Alaska, the word ella is ... 'waterproof skin boot', atallgaq 'ankle-high skin boot', kameksak 'ankle-high skin boot, ... elements, called morphemes, each contributing a meaning of its own.