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Watch our video "Chieftainess" about a remarkable woman who is teaching her community about the importance of education.
Shayne Moore: A Place of Light and Hope Shayne Moore 2011
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As leaders of the resistance were arrested, banned and banished to faraway lands, including King-Regent Morwamotshe and Chieftainess Mankopodi Thulare, a fund was established called Fetakgomo.
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As leaders of the resistance were arrested, banned and banished to faraway lands, including King-Regent Morwamotshe and Chieftainess Mankopodi Thulare, a fund was established called Fetakgomo.
CONTENTS: 2007
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Chieftainess Chiawa of the Goba people in lower Zambezi confirmed that her people had slaughtered all their poultry and goats after hearing of an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus that can transfer to humans in Zambia.
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A large crowd has remained at Chieftainess Maraba's headquarters since Mashapa's funeral on
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Sangoni to set up a committee incorporating the Chieftainess
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The fortitude and the eloquence of the Narragansett Chieftainess were born again in the Iroquois maiden; she typified the spirit of her people that flung itself against the advancing tide of white encroachment even as a falcon might fling himself against a horde of crows whose strength was their numbers and whose numbers were without end, so all his wondrous effort was made vain.
The Shagganappi 1913
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“It was well indeed that you sent me forth on that mission, my Chieftainess,” spoke Dunois, as we sat at the long table in the Treasurer's house, refreshing ourselves after the fatigues of the march to and from the city, and the anxiety of awaiting an attack, which had not come.
A Heroine of France Everett-Green, Evelyn 1906
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Chieftainess; in fact, it was admitted that they were a lot of thirteen caught out of a tribe as one might catch so many sheep out of a flock.
The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs 1896
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He considered them guilty, not because they had done anything, but because in their position as advisers of the Chieftainess they ought to have advised her better than they appeared to have done.
The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs 1896
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