Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Howard B. Fell, a scholar in linguistics and marine biology at the Agassiz Museum, said he bases his conclusions on the similarity of language between American Indian tribes of that period and European peoples...
Fell says the American Indian civilization in the Southwest was overtaken between A.D. 1100 and 1200 by the "Ab" people. The word "Ab" means "Apache" in modern Pima, one of the tribes which shared the Southwestern culture called Hohokam and spoke in the near-universal tongue of North American at that time--Iberic, Fell said...
...ports to U.S. nuclear-powered warships and also offered docking privileges at a new port being constructed near Perth in Western Australia. Since Australia's own army and relatively small navy are insufficient to guard its 12,210-mile coastline or ensure control of supply lines across the Indian Ocean, Fraser has enthusiastically supported Washington's opening up a new base on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean...
...Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. to counter regional threats with their own forces, Fraser has ordered a $15 billion increase in Australian defense spending over the next five years. But Fraser also wants the alliance with the U.S. redefined to take account of future Russian actions in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Toward that end, he has proposed some sort of four-power Pacific cooperation embracing the U.S., China, Japan and Australia-a form of local détentein Asia...
...colors. They were turbaned, feathered, booted, shawled, cinched, tasseled and encrusted from head to foot in braid, beads, rickrack and passementerie. The so-called Fantasy Look, which seemed more suitable for grand opera than for real life, was a melange of styles derived from the Russian, Gypsy, Cossack, Moroccan, Indian and Victorian...