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Examples
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She's also the forest's liaison with the Me-Wuk tribe.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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Tadd soon passed away and several years later Baca sold the recordings, under the name "California Me-Wuk Songs."
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The case began in the early 90s when Brown Tadd, an elder with the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of California, allowed Native artist Lorenzo Baca to videotape traditional Tuolumne/Me-Wuk dances performed at the Sonora Museum.
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A Serbian story (Wuk, No. 37) is closer to the "Forty Vezirs" version than is the "1001 Days."
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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There is a striking analogy between the opening of our story and that of a Servian tale (Wuk, No. 5), where a Kaiser has three daughters whom he rears in close confinement, but whom he permits one day, after they have become of marriageable age, to dance the kolo.
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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(Crane, No. XIII); or else the animals present themselves as suitors after the death of the king, who has charged his sons to see that their sisters are married (Von Hahn, No. 25; compare the opening of Wratislaw No. XLI = Wuk, No. 17).
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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He finds the nearest parallel in Wuk, No. 25, but this is by no means a full variant of the other European tales and may have even been
Europa's Fairy Book Joseph Jacobs 1885
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It is a direct descendant from the "Uk" or "Wuk" (ounce) of the hieroglyphs (See Sharpe's Egypt or any other Manual) and first appeared in Europe as the Greek {Greek}.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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On the night before the battle, Lasar assembled all the knights and nobles to decide the matter between Wuk and Milosh.
Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. Andrew Archibald Paton 1842
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Wuk Stephanovitch gives the following anecdote, illustrative of the abuses which existed in the selection of the superior clergy from this time, and up to the Servian revolution, all the charges being sold to the highest bidder, or given to courtiers, destitute of religion, and often of common morality.
Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. Andrew Archibald Paton 1842
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