Word: battleburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Batkins, who live up river in the Hehonee swamps, are of Indian descent. It is an Indian that Luther would like to be so that his daughter Sis could break the color line, go off to government school at the Tohannock Indian reservation. Semmes Maiden, a young lawyer from Battleburg, the State capital, capitalizes on this desire of Luther's, persuades him and his relatives to put in their claims as Hehonee Indians, along with the Tohannocks, who are agitating for an equal footing with the whites...
...possible revenge, attacks him. Luther, broken-hearted about Sis, who can never pass for an Indian girl now, knows it is time for him to clear out of Ball's Wharf. He sends Sis off to the Batkins' to bear her child, while he goes off to Battleburg to work, and to await, with the Tohannock Indians, the Government's decision on their claim...
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