Word: tribe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They were solid citizens. Many were farmers; they lived and died in the big house for 100 years. Then about 1800 Priscilla Shallcross married Samuel Roberts at Abington Meeting House, and the house and its surrounding acres were passed on to their descendants. The Roberts tribe enlarged the place until it boasted 19 rooms and a 110-ft. porch, and they, in turn, tilled the farm for 120 years...
...Time to Laugh, by Laurence Thompson. The lighthearted story of poor Gadein, a gawky African adolescent, and his triumph over both his tribe and the British army (TIME, April...
...Time to Laugh, by Laurence Thompson. The lighthearted story of poor Ga-dein, a gawky African adolescent, and his triumph over both his tribe and the British army (TIME, April...
Until 1936, Albert Namatjira, a husky black member of the Arunta tribe in the remote bush country of central Australia, was a camel driver. He also did odd jobs for the Lutheran mission at tiny (pop. 242) Hermannsburg, 1,300 miles northwest of Sydney. The missionaries paid him in clothes and rations of European food, with which Albert supplemented the native "bush tucker" of kangaroo meat, honey ants and fat grubs...
...Council to decide, said one; the whole people should vote on it. It was sinful to give away the holy things, said another; they should never be written at all but handed down from father to son. But when the vote came at last, the pride of the tribe (and perhaps a hope that the book would help establish a pending land claim against the Government) made it 50 to 18 for giving Father Haile permission to go ahead with his 1,203-page manuscript and giving him $30,000 to pay for it. Yazzie beamed...