Word: choctaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Power of Myth. Bill Moyers' series of interviews on PBS with the late Professor Campbell, one of the world's reigning experts on mythology, was fascinating stuff, if you're really into fertility cults, purification rites and the like. But the show wasn't all Upanishads and Choctaw legends. Once in a while, with Moyers smirking approval in the background, Campbell would offer some solid, down-to-earth advice. Live mythologically, he would say. It's a means of keeping one's inner spirit attuned to the archetypes and myths that surround us even in this secular age. Well, that...
...founder of the OHOYO--which means woman in Choctaw--Resource Center in Wichita Falls, Texas, which provides information and career counseling for professional Indian women, Anderson served on several federal committees during the Carter administration including the president's Advisory Committee for Women...
...were seduced to join up for what would prove banal, backbreaking labor. The pay for three months: $75 and all the beans one could swallow. On the drive, there were few shootouts with warpath tribes. Most drovers were happy to pay the 50?-per-head surcharge demanded by the Choctaw tribal council for crossing their land...