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    Iroquois tribe are an indigenous group‚ which was made up of Six Nations in the eighteenth century‚ but is now known as the Five Nations. The Five Nations are Mohawks‚ Oneidas‚ Onondagas‚ Cayugas‚ |Senecas‚ who are presently living in New York State and southern Quebec and Ontario. The Iroquois called themselves‚ Haudenosaunee‚ which means people of the longhouse. Most families in the tribe are related through the female line. The Iroquois didn’t travel from place to place for food‚ very often

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    December 2014 Leatherback Turtle There are many animals on this earth that have survived for hundreds and thousands of years. Recently studies have shown that those animals are now on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. They are claimed as critically endangered. They are as we say becoming extinct. The Leatherback Turtle is one of those endangered animal species. Leatherback Turtles also known as “Dermochelys coriacea” is named after its shell. It is not hard like other turtles but made up of leather-like

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    Iroquois Kinship System

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    Iroquois Kinship 1 Iroquois Kinship System Carl B. Lockhart ANT 101 Robert Moon August 29‚ 2011 Iroquois Kinship 2 Iroquois Kinship System The first scientific investigation of an

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    Common Snapping Turtles

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    cord‚ notochord‚ post-anal tail. Chelydra serpentine have waterproof skin covered in scales‚ are ectothermic and have hard shelled eggs that are water proof. These features make them a part of the class Reptilia. They belong to the order Testudines (turtles) which means they have the following features: boney shell which is part of their skeleton‚ a shell on their underside‚ sharp beaks that replace teeth and allows them to tear their food. There are over 290 species of Testudines alive today

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    Leatherback Sea Turtle

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    Leatherback Turtle Species: Reptile Range: The coasts of Nova Scotia‚ Newfoundland and Labrador‚ New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Research has revealed that leatherbacks are more loaded in Atlantic Canada from July through to the end of October‚ with the highest amount of turtles occurring on the Scotian Shelf and Slope‚ southern Gulf of St. Lawrence‚ and south coast of Newfoundland. The leatherback has also been seen less frequently off the coast of British Columbia. Designation:

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    Iroquois Clan ANT 101 December 5‚ 2011 There are many different cultures‚ each having their own values‚ and rules. The Iroquois are an association of several tribes‚ of indigenous people of North America. The Iroquois have many different ways about their way of living such as rules involving marriage. What contributes to the way an Iroquois react and think? Is it kinship‚ religion‚ and beliefs‚ or is it something else? The Iroquois have a very well-known culture. Iroquois are indigenous

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    Loggerhead Sea Turtle

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    Caretta caretta is commonly called the "Loggerhead" sea turtle due to their overly large heads‚ which are comprised of a horny beak that is significantly thicker than in other sea turtles. This species is the largest hard-shelled turtle in the world. Loggerhead turtles have large heads (when compared to other species of marine turtles) and strong‚ muscular jaws (which help them crush prey such as crabs and lobsters). The loggerhead sea turtle is a marine mammal that grows quite large. Adults of this

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    JR Benedict Nov 20‚ 2012 “Understanding the built environment at the Seneca Iroquois White Springs Site using large-scale multi-instrument archaeogeophysical surveys”. The field of landscape archaeology can be challenging in the way that it conducts itself. Most of the time the sites are obstructed by vegetation or they may be hidden in a farmer’s plowed field. However the surveying of these places do to their size and proximity to any adjacent constraints

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    eyes. To me Yertle the Turtle is about a tyrant’s reign over a happy and peaceful area. This book as published in 1958‚ thirteen years after World War Ⅱ. I think the tyrant in the story was symbolic and Yertle was actually Hitler. In stanzas one and nine Yertle commands for turtle the stack up on top of each other in order the make his throne taller. The turtles he is sitting on could represent all of the countries that he concurred overtime. Or‚ in a more dark manner‚ the turtles could be the bodies

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    Sea Turtle Bycatch

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    Would the Sea Turtles be Missed? “Six of the seven sea turtle species are listed as vulnerable‚ endangered‚ or greatly endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of threatened species (Roach).” These suffering sea turtle species are the following: Reen‚ Hawksbill‚ Kemp’s Ridley‚ Leatherback‚ Loggerhead‚ and Olive Ridley. All of these turtles are found in the waters off the coasts of the United States of America. The only species of sea turtle that is not in

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