Word: blackfoot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...construction workers at peak, only 2,000 permanent settlers after building was complete. But Arco (and Idaho) went right on dreaming of factories in the desert, and daily passenger trains to replace the single coach-and-baggage-car that now shuttles along the Union Pacific spur to Blackfoot...
...Whereas times have changed for the better, and the net profits of the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, Ltd. have greatly increased; and whereas the Indian bands of the Blackfoot, Sarcee and Stoneys have since its beginning helped greatly to raise the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, Ltd. show to its high standard...
...Therefore the treaty Indians of the Blackfoot, Sarcee and Stoney tribes, as undersigned, petition and ask the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, Ltd. to double the prize list of the following: 1) best-dressed Indian and parade participants; 2) Indian races; 3) and to increase the teepee grants from...
...Signed) "Head Chief Duck Chief, L. Many Bears, Paul Little Walker, Ben Calf Robe [Blackfoot tribe]; Chief Enos Hunter, Chief David Bearspaw, Jacob Twoyoungmen, Councilors Isaac Two-youngmen, John Powderface, Tom Kaquitts [Stoney tribe]; Councilors Judas Hunter, Jonas Rider; David Crowchild, Eddie One Spot, George Runner [Sarcee tribe...
...hero of The Big Sky is a raw Kentucky boy named Boone Caudill who goes West after he hits his Pap a lick with a piece of firewood. In St. Louis in 1830, he and his friend Jim Deakins join up for a keelboat expedition to the wild Blackfoot country at the headwaters of the Missouri. The cargo for trading is mostly whiskey; but their ace-in-the-hole, counted on to save the scalps of the whole company from Indians, is a twelve-year-old squaw named Teal Eye, daughter of a Blackfoot chief...