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St. David’s Ties Now Restored To History
Work conducted by Alice Lopez and other Native American leaders to revive cultural links between East Coast tribes and their descendants in St. David’s restored an important chapter on slavery written out of North American history, say a British Museum anthropologist. Ms Lopez, who died suddenly at her Mashpee, Massachussetts home on New Year’s... Read more of this article
Champion of St. David’s Ties Dies
Alice Lopez, one of the strongest champions of cultural ties between Native American Wampanoags and St. David’s Islanders descended from members of the Massachussetts tribe, has died suddenly. She was 49. Ms Lopez – an activist on behalf of Wampanoag housing rights on Cape Cod and a walking respository of tribal lore – collapsed... Read more of this article
The Beat Goes On For Our Gombeys
In a particularly memorable demonstration of Christmas season humbuggery, in 1837 the “Bermuda Gazette” thundered against the island’s Gombey dancers: “We fully agree with our correspondent that the savage and nonsensical exhibition of the Gumba, practiced here by the idle, should be done away with, as a thing not suited to... Read more of this article
