Word: bannocks
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...Shoshoni-Bannock people of the Fort Hall reservation in Idaho secured their right to use 581,000 acre-feet of water flowing through the Snake River under an 1868 treaty. The tribe will use the water for farming and sell any excess...
...covered wagons, raised log cabins and broke virgin soil, fought with Indians and rode stages into newly opened valleys. Others, still in their 50s, are keenly conscious of their parents' trials, pulling handcarts across the U.S., clearing settlements, huddling in sod forts during the Nez Perce and Bannock uprisings. The big country, immense space and small population have nurtured this pioneer feeling. Deep in the Washington woods, along upper Montana benchlands and in the wilderness of Idaho's canyons, are lone dwellings of families who still fight bears and cougars and board their children in school towns...
...Shoshone-Bannock Indians in Blackfoot, Ida. conferred tribal citizenship upon Quot-jasonah-ah ("Buffalo Horns" -better known as Clarence A. B^ottolf-sen) and Pah-zy-tse-ze-yak Kap-je-tah ("Heap Big Potato Chief"-better known as Lewis O. Barrows), the Governors of Idaho and Maine...
When he knew his long day was almost over Gus cashed in shrewdly on his wood-lot holdings, arranged all his affairs like the solid old Yankee he was. Then he got his daughter Kate to cook him the kind of food he always liked: beans and bannock, with plenty of pepper. As his dying remark he murmured one of the family's favorite jokes...
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