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  • [[Category: Addiction or Abuse (drugs, Alcohol or Gambling)]] [[Category: Family Friends or Acquaintances]]
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  • [[Category: Ethnic or Religious Identity Confused or Concealed, Racism]] [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]
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  • ...ul man named Tetabo arose and established himself as mataniwi-iaon-te-aba, or master on the land. Tetabo's grandson, Tawaia, was proclaimed the first uea [[Category: Nationality or Citizenship]]
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  • [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]] [[Category: Adoptees/Fosterees from Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Birth Families]]
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  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
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  • Griffis was born to a white father, a famous scout, and a mother who was half Osage (there is some dispute about this, b [[Category: Estrangement from Adoptive or Foster Family]]
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  • [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]] [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
    2 KB (233 words) - 04:08, 3 March 2018
  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
    22 KB (3,449 words) - 04:20, 26 February 2018
  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
    22 KB (3,495 words) - 06:54, 27 February 2018
  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
    22 KB (3,495 words) - 04:18, 4 March 2018
  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
    22 KB (3,495 words) - 06:31, 28 February 2018
  • ...eneral of [[Russia]] and awarded him the Alexander Nevski Medal. He died a wealthy and revered man, leaving a wife and nine children, one of whom was the gran ...reate his own wife. In the late 1760s he [[adopted]] two unrelated orphans or foundlings, whom he named Sabrina Sidney and Lucretia, then aged 11 and 12.
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  • ...embers of the families are generally recognized as having been [[adopted]] or fostered. (The abnormally common death dates 1848 and 1849 are because of a ...V. She became Governor of Hawai'i in 1855. At her death she was immensely wealthy, having united the estates of several branches of the family. She [[adopted
    8 KB (1,195 words) - 06:39, 28 February 2018
  • Ibrahim was the eldest [[adopted]] or birth son (sources disagree) of Muhammad 'Ali Pasha, viceroy of [[Egypt]], [[Category: Figures Whose Adoption or Fostering Is Fictitious, Disputed or Unconfirmed]]
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  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
    22 KB (3,495 words) - 05:38, 1 March 2018
  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
    22 KB (3,493 words) - 04:20, 3 March 2018
  • ...a large number of adoptions. This is probably typical of Polynesian royal families, as adoption (see also tamaiti whangai) is common in Polynesia. See the ent [[Category: To Further Family or Political Alliances]]
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  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
    22 KB (3,495 words) - 03:20, 5 March 2018
  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
    22 KB (3,495 words) - 03:23, 5 March 2018
  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
    22 KB (3,495 words) - 03:30, 5 March 2018
  • ...ported to his family to have been killed (sources differ: either in battle or executed for rebellion by the Meiji government), and according to custom, t [[Category: Estrangement from Adoptive or Foster Family]]
    2 KB (308 words) - 05:01, 4 March 2018
  • [[Category: Birth or Infancy]] [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • ...nd son of Nagaakira Utiyama, but was [[adopted]] as a young boy by another noble family, the Seki Gorozayemon. [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • [[Category: War or Persecution]] [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
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  • ...rs to be raised by relatives, including Chief Blackfish, who also fostered or [[adopted]] several white captive children. ...ership: that no individual or even tribe could alienate land to the whites or own land individually.
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  • ...ul man named Tetabo arose and established himself as mataniwi-iaon-te-aba, or master on the land. Tetabo's grandson, Tawaia, was proclaimed the first uea [[Category: Nationality or Citizenship]]
    2 KB (328 words) - 16:17, 17 June 2014
  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 04:37, 26 February 2018
  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 04:41, 26 February 2018
  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 04:44, 26 February 2018
  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 06:51, 27 February 2018
  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 05:24, 1 March 2018
  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 04:24, 3 March 2018
  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 20:00, 3 March 2018
  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 00:42, 4 March 2018
  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 00:51, 4 March 2018
  • [[Category: Birth or Infancy]] [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • Charbonneau was the son of a French-Canadian guide and his wife, the famous [[Sacagawea]], both hired as interpreters for the Lewis and Clark expeditio Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and [[Adopted]] People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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  • The church leaders there misunderstood the nature of Maori extended families and believed they were a polygamous family (polygamy had already been banne [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]
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  • ...e and Arihia Ngarori Nikorima, both descended from important Te Whakatohea families, the sixth of their seven children. He was given to chief Paora Kingi Marae ...ricultural worker, boat builder and coastal shipping trader. He was also a famous rugby player.
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  • His families were followers of the prophet Te Whiti, but Ellison converted to Christiani [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...sold her as a slave. She was later sold on, to a wealthier merchant, as an adoptive daughter. He recognized her intellectual promise and had her educated at th [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • He was the adoptive father of [[Delos Knowles Lonewolf]]. [[Category: Adoptive Parents]]
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  • At a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school he became a famous football fullback and was an active Methodist. He interpreted for [[Lone Wo [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • ...ecome a farm worker, then inherited farms from both his birth and adoptive families. When his birth mother died he became head of their Te Pahipoto hapu (sub-t [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]] [[Category: Customary or Traditional Adoption, Informal and Extra-Legal Care]]
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  • When the family returned home young William, now 14 or 15, was apprenticed to a notoriously corrupt and rapacious lawyer, Walter B [[Category: Estrangement from Adoptive or Foster Family]]
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  • [[Category: Birth or Infancy]] [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 00:55, 4 March 2018
  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 04:21, 4 March 2018
  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
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