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Oktibbeha is a Native American word meaning either bloody water ( because of a battle fought on the banks ) or possibly icy creek.
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Oktibbeha County is a county located in the U. S. state of Mississippi.
Oktibbeha County is within the service area of the East Mississippi Community College system.
The campus of Mississippi State University is located in Oktibbeha County, partially in Starkville and partially in an unincorporated area.
Columbus is also part of the area of northeast Mississippi called The Golden Triangle, consisting of Columbus, West Point and Starkville, in the counties of Lowndes, Clay and Oktibbeha.
Sturgis is a town in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi.
The Town of Sturgis is served by the Oktibbeha County School District.
Maben is a town in Oktibbeha and Webster counties, Mississippi.
Most of the town is in Oktibbeha County, with a portion on the west side in adjacent Webster County In the 2000 census, 542 of the town's 803 residents ( 67. 5 %) lived in Oktibbeha County and 261 ( 32. 5 %) in Webster County.
Most of Maben is served by the Oktibbeha County School District, although the small portion of the town that is located in Webster County is served by the Webster County School District.
The Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science commonly known as Mississippi State University is a land-grant university located in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, United States, partially in the town of Starkville and partially in an unincorporated area.
Oktibbeha and .
The Starkville Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Oktibbeha County.
Pushmataha Area Council serves Calhoun, Chickasaw, Monroe, Webster, Oktibbeha, Clay, Lowndes, Winston, Choctaw and Noxubee counties in north Mississippi.
Tuck, a native of tiny Maben in Oktibbeha County in north central Mississippi, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and a Master of Public Administration degree from the Mississippi State University and a Juris Doctor degree from Mississippi College School of Law.
In 1990, she defeated five others to be elected to the Mississippi Senate to represent Choctaw, Montgomery, Oktibbeha and Webster counties.
On May 10, 2006 the next-to-last leg, a, $ 23-million section, opened from the Oktibbeha County line west into Winston County.
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Native American culture is rich in myths and legends that were used to explain natural phenomena.
Native Americans were the earliest inhabitants of the land that is today known as the United States and played its first music.
The allele ADH1 B * 3 is only found in those of African descent and certain Native American tribes.
Native Americans however, have a significantly higher rate of alcoholism than average ; it is unclear why this is the case.
Most of the Native elders speak it, it is very rare for an everyday person to speak the language fluently.
Beadwork is a quintessentially Native American art form, but ironically uses beads imported from Europe and Asia.
Most Native beadwork is created for tribal use but beadworkers also create conceptual work for the art world.
Perhaps the most famous Native bead is wampum, a cylindrical tube of quahog or whelk shell.
* Bannock people, a Native American people of what is now southeastern Oregon and western Idaho
Manek states that Sungazing is the key to his health, citing the Jainist Tirthankara Mahavira, ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Native Americans as his inspiration.
About 4, 000 years ago, migrating Native Americans settled in the fertile valleys and coastal areas of what is present day Chile.
In Pre-Columbian times the Native Americans in what is now Costa Rica were part of a cultural complex known as the " Intermediate Area ," between the Mesoamerican and Andean cultural regions.
Fire is represented in the Aztec religion by a flint ; to the Native Americans, a mouse ; to the Hindu and Islamic faiths, a lightning bolt ; to the Scythians, an axe, to the Greeks, an apple-bough ; and in Christian iconography, a lion.
Traditional stories from many Native American, First Nations, and Aboriginal cultures include a deity whose name is translated into English as " Coyote ".
The name " Chicago " is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, translated as " wild onion " or " wild garlic ," from the Miami-Illinois language.
The role of midwife is usually played by a female deity, like the spider woman of Native American mythology.
The genre is most commonly found in Native American cultures where the myths frequently link the final emergence of people from a hole opening to the underworld to stories about their subsequent migrations and eventual settlement in their current homelands.
Cowboy Bebops universe is filled with video players and hyperspace gates, eco-politics and fairgrounds, spaceships and Native American shamans.
The racial makeup of the city is 81. 1 % White, 1. 9 % Black or African American, 2. 4 % Native American, 2. 1 % Asian, 0. 2 % Pacific Islander, 9. 4 % from other races, and 2. 9 % from two or more races.
He is of English ( maternal ), Swiss and possibly Native American Modoc Tribe multi-ethnic ( paternal ) ancestry His father, Howard " Pete " Brubeck, was a cattle rancher, and his mother, Elizabeth ( née Ivey ), who had studied piano in England under Myra Hess and intended to become a concert pianist, taught piano for extra money.
" They traveled in March from Cincinnati up the Great Miami River by pirogue and landed at what is now St. Clair Street, where they found two small camps of Native Americans.
Alaskans also use the term Alaska Native, which is inclusive of all Eskimo, Aleut and Indian people of Alaska, and is exclusive of Inuit or Yupik people originating outside the state.
The racial makeup of the city is 97. 38 % White, 0. 82 % Asian, 0. 57 % Black or African American, 0. 20 % Native American, no Pacific Islanders, 0. 26 % from other races, and 0. 77 % from two or more races.
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`` His address '', Walter added, `` is that great foundling home, the American Express.
Now I wish to enter the American market, where the competition is very strong.
As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.
Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.
The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.
A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.
BMEWS intelligence is simultaneously flashed to NORAD ( North American Air Defense Command ) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for interpretation ; ;
Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.
Obviously there has been no agreement on what American conservatism is, or rather, what it should be.
Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.
One thing you can say about Mr. Lyford is that he does not suffer from any insecurity as an American.
The picture is the more treacherous when it misrepresents the facts of American life.
The interesting thing about Mr. Lyford's approach, and the approach of the contributors to The Agreeable Autocracies ( Oceana Publications, 1961 ) to the situation of American civilization, is that it is concerned with comprehending the psychological relationships which are having a decisive effect on American life.
Such performance is a great tribute to American scientists and engineers, who in the past five years have had to telescope time and technology to develop these long-range ballistic missiles, where America had none before.
Mr. Stavropoulos is the U.N. legal chief and a very good man, but he is not fully versed on some technical points of American law ''.
The other is that the charge for cabanas and parasols, though modest from an American point of view, still is a little high for many Athenians.
He is said to have reported that once, when she went to a hospital to call on a friend after a serious operation, and the friend protested that it had been `` nothing '', she replied, `` Well, it was your healthy American peasant blood that pulled you through ''.
Finally, there is the undeniable fact that some of the finest American fiction is being written by Jews, but it is not Jewish fiction ; ;
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