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Owa dance. The dance is one of the traditional dances of the Marma clans of Tripura, who will also perform the Sangrai dance. The Marmas, also known as Mogs, are Buddhists; and the Owa -Cho -labre is one of their main Buddhist festivals. The Mogs celebrate the Owa festival on the full moon day of Ashwin in the Bengali calendar. They attend the ...
Ajwain or ajowan ( Trachyspermum ammi) [3] ( / ˈædʒəwɒn /) —also known as ajowan caraway, omam (in Tamil ), thymol seeds, bishop's weed, or carom —is an annual herb in the family Apiaceae. [4] Both the leaves and the seed ‑like fruit (often mistakenly called seeds) of the plant are consumed by humans. The name "bishop's weed" also is ...
The Poarch Band of Creek Indians opened the Park at OWA, an amusement park in Foley, Alabama, on July 20, 2017. [27] [28] The 520-acre (2.1 km 2 ) site was a joint venture between the City of Foley and the Foley Sports Tourism Complex, developed in conjunction with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians as part of a city-wide sports tourism push. [29]
This is a list of English language words borrowed from Indigenous languages of the Americas, either directly or through intermediate European languages such as Spanish or French. It does not cover names of ethnic groups or place names derived from Indigenous languages. Most words of Native American/First Nations language origin are the common ...
Asaduddin Salahuddin Owaisi (born 13 May 1969) is an Indian politician, who is the President of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM). He is a 4 time Member of Parliament representing the Hyderabad constituency in Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament.
Spanish explorers arrived on California's coasts as early as the mid-16th century. In 1769 the first Spanish Franciscan mission was built in San Diego. Local tribes were relocated and conscripted into forced labor on the mission, stretching from San Diego to San Francisco. Disease, starvation, excessive physical labor and torture decimated ...
Santee Dakota. Yankton Dakota. The Dakota pushed southward into much of Iowa in the 18th and 19th centuries. They often encountered European-American settlers. [3] In 1840, the translator Isaac Galland noted several Dakota groups in or near Iowa, including Wahpekute, North Sisseton, South Sisseton, East Wahpetonwan, West Wahpetonwan, Yankton ...
A married woman or a widow used her husband's surname with the suffix -owa or -'ina / -'yna (the apostrophe means that the last consonant in the base form of the surname is softened). Although these suffixes are still used by some people, mostly the elderly and in rural areas, they are now becoming outdated and there is a tendency to use the ...