UNJLC - About Liberia Liberia is an independent republic, which lies on the bulge of africa between the indigenous peoples a greater say in Liberian affairs were undertaken. http://www.unjlc.org/content/index.phtml/itemId/17304
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MSN Encarta - Search View - Liberia of the people of Liberia belong to one of several indigenous African ethnic The largest of these groups are the kpelle, Bassa, Gio, and Kru peoples. http://encarta.msn.com/text_761565772__1/Liberia.html
Extractions: The search seeks the exact word or phrase that you type, so if you donât find your choice, try searching for a key word in your topic or recheck the spelling of a word or name. Liberia I. Introduction Liberia , republic in western Africa, bounded on the north by Sierra Leone and Guinea, on the east by C´te dâIvoire, and on the south and west by the Atlantic Ocean. Liberia has an area of 99,067 sq km (38,250 sq mi). Liberia was founded in the early 1800s by freed American slaves. Monrovia is the capital and largest city. II. Land and Resources The coast of Liberia extends 579 km (360 mi) from the Mano River in the west to the Cavally River in the east. From a narrow, flat coastal belt the country rises in a series of ill-defined plateaus to a higher interior. The coastal strip, extending about 80 km (about 50 mi) inland, is virtually the only developed region. The interior is heavily forested; mountains reach elevations of about 900 to 1,200 m (about 3,000 to 4,000 ft). Many small riversâincluding the Lofa, Saint Paul, and Cestusâtraverse the country. A.
Adam Carr's Electoral Archive Ethnicity Almost the entire population is of African descent, but there is adistinction between indigenous African peoples (including the kpelle, Bassa, http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/l/liberia/statsliberia.shtml
Extractions: Ethnicity: Almost the entire population is of African descent, but there is a distinction between "indigenous" African peoples (including the Kpelle, Bassa, Gio, Kru and many others), and the Americo-Liberians (about 5% of the population), who are descendants of freed slaves from the United States and the Caribbean. Languages: English is the official language and the language of government, business and communications. It is spoken by about 5% of the population as a first language, and most of the population use Liberian Pidgin English as a second language. The major African languages are Kpelle (18%), Bassa (13%), Dan (7%), Klao (7%), Mano (7%) and Loma (5%).
Liberia On The Internet Jorwah, located in the Guinea Highlands among the kpelle people. These mapsshow early settlements in Liberia, indigenous political subdivisions, http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/liberia.html
Mathematics In Language - Mathematics And The Liberal Arts Regarding logic, when asked the question All kpelle men are rice farmers. there are many interesting examples from the indigenous peoples of North and http://math.truman.edu/~thammond/history/Language.html
Extractions: To refine search, see subtopic Number Words . To expand search, see Language and Literature . Laterally related topics: The Development of Writing Storytelling Traditions Literature Shakespeare ... Language and Linguistics , and Myth and Ritual The Mathematics and the Liberal Arts pages are intended to be a resource for student research projects and for teachers interested in using the history of mathematics in their courses. Many pages focus on ethnomathematics and in the connections between mathematics and other disciplines. The notes in these pages are intended as much to evoke ideas as to indicate what the books and articles are about. They are not intended as reviews. However, some items have been reviewed in Mathematical Reviews , published by The American Mathematical Society. When the mathematical review (MR) number and reviewer are known to the author of these pages, they are given as part of the bibliographic citation. Subscribing institutions can access the more recent MR reviews online through MathSciNet Ascher, Marcia and Ascher, Robert. Ethnomathematics.
Indigenous Mathematics Of North America - Mathematics And The Regarding logic, when asked the question All kpelle men are rice farmers. of numbers and geometric shapes in various North American indigenous peoples. http://math.truman.edu/~thammond/history/IndigenousNorthAmerica.html
Extractions: To refine search, see subtopics The Inuit American Indians , and The Bellacoola . To expand search, see Indigenous American Mathematics and North America . Laterally related topics: Indigenous Mathematics of Central and South America and The United States The Mathematics and the Liberal Arts pages are intended to be a resource for student research projects and for teachers interested in using the history of mathematics in their courses. Many pages focus on ethnomathematics and in the connections between mathematics and other disciplines. The notes in these pages are intended as much to evoke ideas as to indicate what the books and articles are about. They are not intended as reviews. However, some items have been reviewed in Mathematical Reviews , published by The American Mathematical Society. When the mathematical review (MR) number and reviewer are known to the author of these pages, they are given as part of the bibliographic citation. Subscribing institutions can access the more recent MR reviews online through MathSciNet Ascher, Marcia and Ascher, Robert. Ethnomathematics.
UN Chronicle | Languages As Historical Archives Many centuries before, peoples of the Guinea Coast of africa evolved a Modernday Mande languages include kpelle in Liberia, Mende in Sierra Leone, http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/issue4/0403p68.asp
Extractions: In the eighteenth century, the British New World colony of South Carolina prospered from the raising and exporting of rice. What does this have to do with linguistics, agriculture and development in the modern day? The answer is a salutary warning against unexamined assumptions: African agricultural technology created the prosperity of colonial Carolina. Many centuries before, peoples of the Guinea Coast of Africa evolved a sophisticated and highly efficient technology for growing abundant crops of African rice, Oryza glaberima. Taking advantage of the tidal estuaries of rivers flowing into the Atlantic, they built levees and channels to redirect the ebb and flow of the tides onto their fields. Before the planting season, African farmers channeled to their fields salty seawater flowing into the estuaries at high tide. Some days or weeks later, they let fresh water flow onto the plots: the salty water had killed the weeds and seeds, and then the fresh water washed away the salty water and leached the salt from the soil. At the same time, it deposited a fresh layer of silt, enriching the soil for the rice crop to be planted. Carolina planters gained access to this technology in the eighteenth century by importing experts from the Guinea Coast. But unlike modern-day expatriate advisers, these experts crossed the Atlantic not as a privileged group but as slaves, and so their seminal role in colonial Carolina agriculture long remained unnoticed. Only in the past twenty years, through the work of scholars, such as Professor Judith Carney and Dr. Edda Fields, has their contribution finally begun to gain the recognition it has long deserved.
FMO Research Guide: However, over time, even as the indigenous peoples became Christianised, The kpelle make up 20 per cent of the population, the Bassa 16 per cent, http://www.forcedmigration.org/guides/fmo013/fmo013-2.htm
Extractions: As early as 1461, Portuguese explorers were the first Europeans known to establish contact with the inhabitants of the Grain Coast, so named for the area's abundant supply of malegueta pepper grains. In 1633, the British established trading posts in this area, which was to become Liberia. Although the Dutch followed the British and destroyed their trading posts, history does not record any other reports of European settlements in the area until the 1800s. In 1821, the American Colonization Society (ACS), established to find solutions to the problem of slavery in the United States, sent Captain Stockton to the Grain Coast to negotiate with an indigenous leader named King Peter for lands to establish a quasi-colony for freed American slaves. Soon after, a settlement was established in what is now Monrovia (named after US President James Monroe) and freed slaves from the Americas began arriving by the thousands. These settlers, known as Americo-Liberians (from the United States) and the Congo people (from the Caribbean), banded together to form the Republic of Liberia (meaning 'Land of the Free'), which gained its independence from the ACS on 26 July 1847. For the next 133 years, the Americo-Liberians, who made up less than 1 per cent of the population, governed Liberia though the country's only political party, the True Whig Party. Indigenous Liberians were excluded from political and economic opportunities reserved for the elitist settlers. However, the Americos and Congos intermarried with the native population and took on local wards, allowing for a degree of integration between the settlers and the 'country people' as they were called.
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Vth World Parks Congress, 8-17 September 2003, Durban, South Africa Highlighting the recognition in Australia of indigenous peoples capacity toestablish David kpelle, Conservation International, presented on the use of http://www.iucn.org/themes/wcpa/wpc2003/english/news/daybyday/dailyreports/12090
Extractions: IISD Report ... Today's Photogallery Participants at the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress (WPC) met in seven workshop streams to address: linkages in the landscape and seascape; building broader support for protected areas (PAs); PA governance; developing the capacity to manage PAs; evaluating management effectiveness; building a secure financial future; and building comprehensive PA systems. All workshop streams held concurrent break-out sessions throughout the day. Side meetings, special events and discussion groups on WPC recommendations were also held. This report focuses on selected sessions addressing:
PBS CAMPUS | Find A Course Kung, the Mendi, and the kpelle as examples of the band, the tribe and the The program includes several examples of how indigenous peoples are making http://www.pbs.org/campus/001_Course/001-04.html?referSectID=002&courseID=39&col
Africa In Sight - Liberia Ethnic Groups = indigenous African tribes 95% (including kpelle, Bassa, Gio, Kru,Grebo, PEOPLE. Population = 3164156 (July 2000 est.) Age Structure = http://www.africainsight.org/show_country.php?code=li
GRAIN | Briefings | 2002 | Intellectual Property Rights I southern africa regularly use 106 species for their daily needs.3 The kpelle According to a global coalition of indigenous peoples organisations, http://www.grain.org/publications/africa-ipr-2002-en.cfm
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Extractions: July 1985 LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND THE MATHEMATICS CONCEPTS OF AMERICAN INDIAN LEARNERS Duane E. Schindler and David M. Davison In cross-cultural mathematics teaching two critical factors are: the perceived utility of mathematics and the direct relationship of mathematics learning to language development. The authors review current literature in the field and report the results of their study of perceived utility of mathematics and technical language development in the Crow Indian language. Due to the international character of modern mathematics, its concepts may be transmitted, studied and developed in a variety of languages throughout the world. This development is as recent as this century. The language of modern mathematics is part of the continuum of technical language development that began in Europe in the seventeenth century. Modern mathematics also drew heavily on the ancient language stocks in Europe, Asia Minor, and North Africa and may be said to represent the cumulative technical language development of diverse peoples over thousands of years (Closs, 1977). Mathematics as a technical language is not, nor has it ever been, the exclusive domain of the English language. Researchers Closs (1977) and Green (1978) concluded that historians of mathematics have concentrated on the mainstream development of mathematics and have largely ignored mathematics "in cultures not directly contributing to it" (Closs, 1977, p. 1). However, Gay and Cole (1967), and Closs, presented studies of mathematics in other cultures that show separate development of mathematics in the cultures. Both studies noted the technical language indices of separate development due to cultural uses and perceived need. Closs noted that there is no comprehensive study of pre-Columbian mathematical development in the American continents.
Cultural Anthropology -- University Of Minnesota Duluth Kung in africa to illustrate the idea of culture loss cf., The Hunters. The program includes several examples of how indigenous peoples are making the http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1604/video/Faces.html
Extractions: Course Information Case Study ~ What's New? Exams Extra Credit FAQs Grades ~ grading policies ~ eGradebook Office Hours, etc. Questions ? Requirements Special Facilities Syllabus Text Videos Course Topics 01 Introduction Maps World Africa Botswana Ethiopia France Guatemala Indonesia Kena Mexico South Africa Tanzania World Fact Book Your Nation Country Briefings Other Useful Sites Prehistoric Cultures Anth in the News WWW Virtual Library Anth Web Resources E-mail us Jim Belote's Page Tim Roufs' Page The Paleo Ring Search this page Search UMD's pages Translation Services Useful Web Sites Writing Guide PBS Adult Learning Satellite Service, 1994) top of page " Faces of Culture , an introductory cultural anthropology course, is a provocative study of the structure and process of culture. This telecourse features dramatic and unique film footage from around the world, embracing cultures from all continents, highlighting major life-styles, and illustrating human adaptation to environment from the beginnings of the human species to the present." PBS "
Resources On The Mende People indigenous African tribes 95% (including kpelle, Bassa, Gio, Kru, Grebo,Encyclopedia of African History Rule Religion, History of Religion, http://www.mongabay.com/indigenous_ethnicities/african/Mende.html
Liberia Country Study Because it was not uncommon in some situations for indigenous people to say thatthey These included the kpelle, the Gio, the Mano, the Loma, the Krahn, http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1985/liberia_2_religiousaf
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ELCA Liberia Support Network Despite resistance by the indigenous people, settlement continued around indigenous African tribes 95% (including kpelle, Bassa, Gio, Kru, Grebo, Mano, http://www.elca.org/liberia/aboutliberia.html
Extractions: Liberia, the second oldest independent country in Africa after Ethiopia, was established in 1847 by former slaves sent to West Africa by the American Colonization Society (ACS) in the early 1800s. Abolitionists in the ACS envisioned an opportunity for blacks to succeed as equals in a place absence of prejudice. For ACS evangelists, it meant a chance to Christianize West Africa. For others, including some slaveholders with the ACS, it was clearly motivated by white fear of a growing African population that might revolt against that treatment they had received as slaves. While some blacks that went to Liberia were free-born African Americans, many were freed form slavery only on the condition that they emigrate to Africa. In 1822, the first ship arrived in what is now Freetown, Sierra Leone. By 1830, despite many deaths from disease, there were as many as 2,500 immigrants who moved to the land now known as Liberia (land of liberty). Despite resistance by the indigenous people, settlement continued around present-day Monrovia (named after ACS supporter President James Monroe) until the land was forcibly purchased from indigenous chiefs. Eventually, over a 40 year period some 13,000 former slaves were shipped to Liberia. These settlers, never making up more than 5% of the population of the country, ruled the country for more than 150 years.
Map & Graph: Africa:Countries By People: Ethnic Groups More than 90% of people in Bhutan, Burundi and Burking Faso are involved in Liberia, indigenous African tribes 95% (including kpelle, Bassa, Gio, Kru, http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/peo_eth_gro/AFR
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