The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

Interestingly enough, the order transmitted to Morgan through Alexander Hamilton also informed him that `` A party of Indians will join the party to be sent from your command at Whitemarsh, and act with them ''.

Chiefly remembered because of his incessant advocacy of `` immediate and unconditional abolition '', he also espoused a great variety of other causes -- among them women's rights, prohibition, and justice to the Indians.

Barter was also used in the colonization of Brazil, since the Indians did not know hard currency.

The Indians named Borneo Suvarnabhumi ( the land of gold ) and also Karpuradvipa ( Camphor Island ).

Parts of Ancient India and Nepal where Buddhism originated were also for long periods Buddhist, and whether as a result of the Buddhist, Jain or Hindu promotion of the principle of ahimsa ( harmlessness ) many Indians remain vegetarian.

The Indians also have a rivalry with the Pittsburgh Pirates, as the two teams play an annual three game series during interleague play in June, playing in Cleveland during even numbered years, and in Pittsburgh in odd number seasons.

Mather also viewed Hayy as a noble savage and applied this in the context of attempting to understand the Native American Indians in order to convert them to Puritan Christianity.

This is also when what is called the Laurentian tradition started among Archaic Indians, existing First Nations peoples of the time.

He was also joined by 100 African slaves and some 10, 000 Yanaconas Indians to transport the weapons, clothing, and food.

Allen also attempted correspondence with the people of Quebec and with the Indians living there in an attempt to sway their opinion toward the revolutionary cause.

On September 8, Schuyler sent Allen and Massachusetts Major John Brown, who had also been involved in the capture of Ticonderoga, into the countryside between St. John and Montreal to spread the word of their arrival to the habitants and the Indians.

Yale was also notorious for arresting and trying Indians on his own private authority, including the hanging of a stable boy who had absconded with a Company horse.

After the 1932 release of MGM's adaptation of The Mask of Fu Manchu, which featured the Asian villain telling an assembled group of " Asians " ( consisting of caricatural Indians, Persians and Arabs ) that they must " kill the white men and take their women ", a Harvard University student group petitioned MGM producer William Randolph Hearst ( who had also serialized the novel in his Cosmopolitan magazine ) to cease making further films based on the property.

Apart from these five original single mixes (" Cowboys & Indians ", " We Don't Want To Die ", " Annihilation ", " Carnage ", " Hibakusha "), there was also the version which appeared on the LP and cassette editions of the album Welcome To The Pleasuredome.

His resignation followed a report confirming his fears that few Indians listened to the broadcasts, but he was also keen to concentrate on writing Animal Farm.

There are also Europeans, Indians, Lebanese, Syrians, Chinese, and Carib Amerindians ( remnants of the original pre-European population ).

Greenberg's contributions to the Cleveland farm system led to the team's successes throughout the 1950s, although Bill James once wrote that the Indians ' late 1950s collapse should also be attributed to him.

Holwell wrote the most detailed account for the college of Physicians in London, describing not only inoculation, but also showing that the Indians knew that microbes caused such diseases:

He also built Fort Miamis ( in present day Maumee, Ohio ) to supply Indians in the upcoming war.

The Sioux were also expecting a retaliatory raid from the Omaha Indians, to the south.

In their cross-cultural study of signs and symbols, Patterns that Connect, Carl Schuster and Edmund Carpenter present various forms of the labyrinth and suggest various possible meanings, including not only a sacred path to the home of a sacred ancestor, but also, perhaps, a representation of the ancestor him / herself: "... many World Indians who make the labyrinth regard it as a sacred symbol, a beneficial ancestor, a deity.

West Indians also use mojo bags, but often use leather instead of flannel.

The island soon became the key-point in the trade of indentured laborers, as thousands of Indians set forth from Calcutta or Karikal ; not only did they modify the social, political and economic physiognomies of the island, but some also went farther, to the West Indies.

You may do well to take notice, that besides the title to land between the English and the Indians there, there are twelve of the English that have subscribed their names to horrible and detestable blasphemies, who are rather to be judged as blasphemous than they should delude us by winning time under pretence of arbitration ''.

A pitiful few of them are left now, to subsist mainly on the tourist trade and to sing their ancient tribal chants, which have the same haunting sadness as the laments of the American Indians.

Many cultures have attached importance to astronomical events, and the Indians, Chinese, and Mayans developed elaborate systems for predicting terrestrial events from celestial observations.

Also, coca leaves have been used by South American Indians since ancient times.

Huichol bead artist, photo by Mario Jareda BeivideHuichol Indians of Jalisco and Nayarit, Mexico have a completely unique approach to beadwork.

Five teams have collected three sacrifice flies in an inning: the Chicago White Sox ( fifth inning, July 1, 1962 against the Cleveland Indians ); the New York Yankees twice ( fourth inning, June 29, 2000 against the Detroit Tigers and third inning, August 19, 2000 against the Anaheim Angels ); the New York Mets ( second inning, June 24, 2005 against the Yankees ); and the Houston Astros ( seventh inning, June 26, 2005 against the Texas Rangers ).

Since their establishment as a Major League franchise in 1901, the Indians have won two World Series championships, in 1920 and 1948.

The Indians have won seven AL Central titles, the most in the division.

The Indians received Steve Demeter in the deal, who would have only five at-bats for Cleveland.

The Indians have a rivalry with the Detroit Tigers due to the fact that the two cities are fairly close to each other, the teams have been battling for the A. L.

The Indians have had an on and off rivalry with the Chicago White Sox since the 1959 season ( when the Sox slipped past the Tribe to win the A. L.

This jersey is the only Indians jersey to not have the players ' names on the back.

Adams originally paid for his tickets ( one for himself, and one for his drum ), but recently the Indians have paid for his seats in honor of the contributions he has made to the ballpark atmosphere.

Brubaker notes that ( as examples ): Albanians, Basques, Hindu Indians, Irish, Japanese, Kashmiri, Koreans, Kurds, Palestinians, and Tamils have been conceptualised as diasporas in this sense.

: These Topasses have no Forts, but depend on their Alliance with the Natives: And indeed they are already so mixt, that it is hard to distinguish whether they are Portugueze or Indians.

His goal was to have Indians acting as individuals ( not as tribes ) and to assume the responsibilities of citizenship granted with the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.

Le Clerc Milfort in 1781 led a journey with hundreds of Creek Indians, to a series of caverns near the Red River above the junction of the Mississippi river, according to Milfort the original Creek Indian ancestors are believed to have emerged out to the surface of the earth in ancient times from the caverns.

Even though being just in the second league and the " Scorpions " being the reigning German champ ( in 2010 ) the Hanover Indians have a strong fan base.

Patriotic feelings have been instigated within Indians through music, since the era of freedom struggle.

While there have been some race-related tensions with the local Bantu and Nilotic majority, Indians nonetheless form one of the most prosperous communities in the region.

Many Indians have made Kenya their home.

In the camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundred, and I have often thought that as Mrs. White would read the same and knowing that I lived near, she would pray for my appearance and that she might be saved.