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Arnie Zane (1947-88) #CoFounder of Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane #Dance company #HIV Positive

The use of folk healers is often limited because the medicinal preparations and elements of traditional health care are not available locally. The size of the local #Haitian group affects the number of traditional healers.

“The priests are the most evil enemies… in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred” – Fredrich Nietzche

The war of 1812 went poorly for the Americans because they mistakenly concentrated their initial efforts on taking the eastern part of Upper Canada, including the Detroit River and Niagara

Although #CostaRican Americans tend to maintain their heritage, they also tend to integrate and adjust to their environment quickly, especially if they want to join a church or if they have children in the public school system

Shasti Ki Shanti (1928) is a #Bengali film

#Jamaican American scholars and professionals establish collegial relations at American universities, colleges, and other institutions of learning.

The US Bureau of Education planned to turn the #inuit, traditionally semi-sedentary hunters, into nomadic herders.

Slaugter is a word in the English language with origins in Old Norse

Female #Israeli American immigrants tend to be as educated as their male counterparts and are often able to secure high-status jobs within the United States.

#Jamaican immigrants generally have four options once they arrive in the United States. The first option is to remain a "bird of passage" by viewing oneself as a temporary alien accumulating some Yankee dollars to return home

#Italians had begun to make advances out of the unskilled ranks during the prosperous 1920s, but many gains were overshadowed during the Great Depression

Father Raphael de Luxembourg who arrived in Louisiana in 1723. Chosen by the King of France to represent the King's interests in the then #French colony of Louisiana, Father Raphael also became a leading figure in the Christianization of Native Americans

in 1735 John Peter Zenger was found innocent of libel by the New York City trial on August 4.

At first glance, #Amish people appear quite religious, however there are no church buildings, sacred symbols, or formal religious education even in #Amish schools

After years of being virtually ignored by the larger society, #Colombian Americans found themselves a target for American resentment over problems ranging from drug-related crime to a decline in the standard of living

The most populated states in the US are California, Texas, and Florida

Most #Iranians who came to the United States did not intend to stay permanently.

The Denbigh, also known as the Small Tool culture, began some 5000 years ago, and over the course of the next millennia it spread westward though Arctic Alaska and Canada

In 1739 the first serious slave revolt in South Carolina when an enslaved person named Cato led an uprising at Stono, about 20 miles west of Charleston