Renewal Celebrations: The Sun Dance amongst the Plains Natives is perceived as a replay of the original creation. Its name is a mistranslation of the Lakota sun gazing dance. ... It also gave an opportunity for people to socialize and renew friendships with other groups. ... Traditional housing: There were many variations across North America: conical wigwams or tipis, long houses, and cliff dwellings. ... Note its details clearly. ...

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The British Empire, which had expanded under Queen Victoria and in 1900 had reached 13 million square miles, also began to disintegrate. ... This led to the rapid expansion of a largely unsophisticated literary public, the rise of the popular press, and the mass production of 'popular' literature for a semi-literate 'lowbrow' readership. ... There is also the fact that there is much more literature, more cultural production in general, in the twentieth century than in any previous period. ...

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