Word: cariboo
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...sage Old Lodge Skins in the 1970 movie Little Big Man; in Vancouver, Canada. A former stevedore who served for twelve years as chief of the Tse-lal-watt tribe in his native British Columbia, George began an acting career at age 61 in the Canadian television series Cariboo Country, and strongly maintained that Indians should portray themselves in movies and TV. "A white man just does not know how to be an Indian," he argued. "A white man cannot understand what it is that goes on in an Indian's mind...
...chief is not exactly an innocent plucked from the reserve. A few years ago one of his sons, who was in the production at the time, landed him a role as a tribal elder in a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation series, Cariboo Country. His first film was a Walt Disney western entitled Smith!, with Glenn Ford. He delivered the eloquent speech, given in 1877 by the venerable Nez Perce chief, Joseph, with only one hitch: Dan George speaks Squamish, not Nez Perce. They made do with Squamish...
...Livermore, Calif. Timid Max Baer went home from school by a three-mile detour because his schoolmates had threatened to thrash him. His timidity was replaced by exaggerated confidence after his first fight. Max Baer's first manager, Hamilton Lorimer, matched him with an Indian named Chief Cariboo whom Baer knocked out in two rounds. After 19 easy victories, Baer fought Frankie Campbell in San Francisco, knocked him out in the fifth round. Campbell failed to recover consciousness, died the next day. Baer was suspended for a year. When he returned to the ring, he had a new manager...
Fortnight ago readers of the sedate New York Times were startled to read that one Roderick MacKenzie, Cariboo member of British Columbia's legislature, had been overturned in his sailboat on Williams Lake by the wiggling of a fabulous monster called the Ogopogo. British Columbia is a long way from Manhattan. Times readers were not worried lest the ogopogo appear in Long Island Sound or the Hudson River. But New Yorkers are used to getting their strange animal stories under the dateline "Winsted, Conn." This awful thought occurred: Are the fabulous animals of Connecticut spreading over the whole continent...
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