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Tuscarora

 

until the 1950’s, the name of the Kuril Depression. The depression was named for the océanographie vessel of an American expedition that from 1873 to 1876 conducted surveys of the projected route of the San Francisco-Yokohama underwater cable. The expedition discovered the depression, which is more than 8,000 m deep.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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'The submission of this drill permit is a significant milestone at Tuscarora, and we anticipate a timely response from the BLM' said Eric Saderholm, President of APM.
And maybe this time we can actually help the people of Niagara Falls, North Tonawanda, Lockport and the Tuscarora Reservation who need it the most, taking the burden off the shoulders of those working poor who have long carried them.
The Haudenosaunee population around the city of Buffalo is predominantly comprised of members of the Seneca, Tuscarora, and Tonawanda Nations.
Educators from the Tuscarora Indian School, part of the local Niagara Wheat-field Central School District, requested the university's help in creating a state certification process for teaching indigenous languages (an effort all parties continue to work toward).
Tuscarora did it, he notes, without one dollar financed by the government.
The Tuscarora War of 1712-1717 has been woefully underrepresented in scholarly literature.
The Tuscarora War by David LaVere focuses on an event in the North Carolina English colony 300 years ago, centered on the Tuscarora tribe.
League officials are hoping Tuscarora will join the CLax as a full member starting in 2015.
Neil Patterson Jr., Director of the Tuscarora Environment Program, is a member of the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force.
Its diverse selections include an early American hymn tune, a song by Stephen Foster, an eleventh-century text set to a traditional Irish melody, a sarabande from a Bach cello suite, a work for cello and harp by Arvo Part, a fantasy on an English tune arranged for viola da gamba, original compositions by Nicholas Walker, Samite, and Jayne Demakos, an arrangement of the "Theme from Schindler's List," a lullaby from the Tuscarora Indian Nation, and traditional Gaelic blessings.
In 2004, greater sage grouse adult and yearling hens were captured and blood samples were collected during breeding (MARCH: March 15 to April 11; n = 22), early brood rearing (MAY: May 20 to June 22; n = 21), and on summer range (JULY: July 7 to August 17; n = 19) in 2 distinct but similar northern Nevada population management units (Tuscarora [TU] and Lone Willow [LW]).
North by northeast; Wabanaki, Akwesasne Mohawk, and Tuscarora traditional arts.