Word: chitimacha
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...reservations to institute any type of gambling that is legal in the states where the % reservations are located. The most popular reservation game is high-stakes bingo. Near Franklin, La., 1,200 people every Saturday night jam into a $2 million bingo hall built last September on the Chitimacha Indian Reservation; that is four times the number of Indians living on the reservation. Each player pays a $45 admission fee and gets twelve bingo cards. The payoff on each winning card is $1,000; total prizes every night are at least $40,000. That tops the church bingo games that...
Blameless Labor. Among the more recent publications of the Smithsonian are reports on the catfish of Venezuela and the songs of the Chitimacha Indians of Louisiana. Every detail of nature, Smithsonian men insist, is worth attention for itself alone...
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