Word: denes
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Late in the 1890s, a young shipping executive named Edmund Dene Morel stands on the shipping docks of Antwerp, Belgium. Amidst the hustle and bustle of ships destined for the Congo, he meticulously records trade statistics for his employer, the shipping firm Elder Dempster. As Morel watches the sailors unload case after case of rubber and ivory from the incoming ships, he suddenly notices that the numbers don't match up. In these brief moments, standing on the dock in Antwerp, Morel finds himself amidst one of the largest slave-operations of this century...
...groups, classified by language, were found to be genetically distinct, suggesting that three separate populations from Asia may have crossed the Bering Strait at different times to settle in America. The Amerind, who predominate in most of North and South America, possess only type O blood; among the Na-Dene, who cluster in Alaska, Canada and the U.S. Southwest, O prevails but A makes an appearance; in the Alaskan and Canadian Inuit (Eskimo), A, B, AB and O blood groups show the pattern seen in the rest of the world...
...Dene Krein 1-6 7; Mass--Danielle...
Louis Pilakapsi, head of the Tungavik Federation of Nunavut, predicted that the pact "will result in a better social and economic state for the Inuit people," But it must still pass muster in the federal Parliament and plebiscites in both the Northwest Territories and the future Nunavut. Dene Indians in the western third of the Territories charge that the settlement undermines their demand for total self-government and control of oil and mineral wealth in their region...
Other groups -- most notably Canada's 700,000 aboriginal and metis people -- insisted that they were equally deserving of special status. Said Ethel Blondin, a legislator from the Western Arctic and a Dene Indian: "There are 53 aboriginal languages and cultures we feel are equal to Quebec's -- no greater and no less...