Word: chinook
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...them, danced with them and offered them sexual favors over the bitterly cold winter of 1804-05, were described as good neighbors. The Lemhi Shoshone, Lewis wrote, were "not only cheerful but even gay, fond of gaudy dress...generous with the little they possess, extreemly honest..." He admired the Chinook for their canoes, "remarkably neat, light and well adapted for riding high waves" but disparaged their "well-known treachery...
...favors they can win--displayed as brazenly as they have been recently at the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, the agency that confers federal recognition on tribes and can turn dusty reservations into billion-dollar-a-year gaming palaces. One unabashed appeal took Linda Amelia of the Chinook Indian tribe by surprise in January. Amelia saw an opportunity to advance her group's long fight for recognition as a tribe at a California G.O.P. meeting attended by Wayne Smith, the No. 2 man at the BIA. Amelia gave Smith her business card and said she would like to discuss Chinook...
...Bersinger but says he did not know his friend was pursuing tribal business. He denies referring Bersinger to Amelia, and says Bersinger was at the Buena Vista meeting only by chance. Though he has never discussed official BIA business with Bersinger, Smith says, he has recused himself from the Chinook case and plans to do the same for the Buena Vistas. "I want to be above the appearance of impropriety," Smith says. --By Michael Weisskopf
...Valerie Chapman, widow of Air Force Technical Sergeant John Chapman, 36, who lived in Fayetteville, N.C., had the same thought. "You have to love it to do what they do," she said of her husband, who died with Anderson and four others in the fire fight after the Chinook crash-landed. "And he loved...
...Afghan allies under General Ziahuddin --Special forces scouts and snipers --10th Mountain Division blocks ravine exits at battle positions Heather and Ginger --A Chinook helicopter crashes on the mountain to the east of Ginger --101st Airborne Division and Afghan forces sweep in --Army's 10th Mountain Division at battle position Eve blocks eastern pass