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- Text: ...ho have uncontrollable lust for white women and whiskey. 5. The characte~ Iran Eyes Cody portrays is a passive 1 mindless slave to a white dominant male (Lone Ranger and Tonto image). 6. The woman is portrayed as pro perty of two men. 7. The woman is portrayed as a foolish., passive,...
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- Text: ...e was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana - I think is what it was. They tracked that somehow or another. He was... his parents were slaves. But he was... I got along good with him, you know. WU: And apparently he was a good worker. 9 Growing Community: Oceana’s Agricultural History Project A p...
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- Text: ...©©© i MYTHS SUHROUNDING INDIAN WOMEN .-~, •' +- • I... 1 poor squaw, beast of burden, slave cLnr1ed under female law from puberty to v1~y ~ne J;~~:rav~. 0 author of these lines displayed -' w1..;conceotion about the lives of Indian wo;>;·~n i·1hich is not only...
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- Text: ...s indebted, Mamasan takes her ID card and she can't go out onto the streets and so she's pretty much an indentured slave right there. So, a GI comes along and meets her in the bar and they start seeing each other and before you know it, he pays off Mamasan and buys her salvation a...
Born in Racine, Wisconsin, Donald Brazones enlisted into the Army Air Corps at the age of 18 in retaliation to the Japanese's bombing of Pearl Harbor. Brazones trained to be a navigator and was sent to England to fly missions over Europe. On Brazones' 18th mission, he was shot down and captured by German Officers. His interview is a detailed recollection of his time in the service, especially his memories from the day he was shot down, and his subsequent capture, imprisonment and release from captivity.
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- Text: ....— Marched 22 miles crossed Meherin River. Camped at 5½ PM.— Country good but exhausted by Tobacco culture & Slave labor— A good place to settle with a Yankee Colony— Friday, May 5 Near left Bank of Nottaway Creek. Rain of last night and this morn slaked the dust & a little...
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- Text: ... who gave his support to whatever minister had favors to bestow, He has been described by one historian- as a "complete slave to women and gambling 11 and by another as ''the · most enterprising and irascible, able and bombastk, intolerant, in tolerable and successful Britis...
Raymond Hines was born on April 6, 1944 in Wellford, South Carolina, and graduated high school in 1962. Hines received his draft notice in 1965 and chose to enlist in the Army. He completed Basic Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, where he became a Morse Intercept Operator. He also trained in Artillery OCS at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, before transferring to Fort Bliss, Texas, as part of the Air Defense for only two months before being transferred to Wurzburg Germany. From Germany, Hines was deployed to Vietnam with the 2nd of the 319th as a Fire Direction Officer and proceeded to report to the Bravo Battery at Firebase Bastogne. He saw heavy combat with this unit. While in Vietnam, Hines also worked as an assistant S-3 fireman, and a Liaison Officer for the 2nd of the 506 at Fire Base Ripcord. After taking some additional advanced artillery courses, he deployed to Nuremberg Germany with the 3rd of the 70th House Artillery before transferring to the 7th Corps Artillery as a Nuclear Release Authentication System Officer. He would later return to Europe after recieveing his veterinarian degree in the United States to care for military service animals.
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- Text: ...They called it Special Operations K-Pool Platoon and we also–– and we had our name for it. We called it the “slaves on call platoon.” It seems like we had a lot of extra duty because we were no longer affiliated with a company. We were a detachment, so were really, like, kind of, on...
January 1978 issue of Turtle Talk by the Grand Rapids Inter-Tribal Council collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection.
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- Text: ...ent to—traded to South Bend because they needed pitchers. Okay, and one of my friends said, “Yeah, that’s like being a slave. They can just trade you anytime you want.” And I said, “Yeah. Yeah, sort of.” Interviewer: “Well, Major League baseball worked the same way.” They do...
Glenn Sheathelm was born in Muskegon, Michigan, in 1946. Enlisting in the Army in 1965, he joins the Army Artillery and undergoes Basic Training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and AIT at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, before being deployed to Nuremberg, Germany. He is then redeployed to Vietnam where he served with the Fire Direction Control and S2 Military Intelligence sections of the First Cavalry Division until after the Tet Offensive in January of 1968. He sees combat while on patrol, during rescue missions, during Air Assaults, and during the Second Battle of Tam Quan when he receives several minor wounds and is sent to the rear for treatment in the final days of his deployment. He then returns to the United States in February of 1968 where he attends the Western Michigan and Grand Valley State Universities for masters' degrees in library sciences, literary media, and history.
