Word: eskimoes
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...When I was here for the first time, in 1967, I was the only Indian student," he says. "The next year, I think they got an Eskimo. But you have no one you feel comfortable associating with, no one you have anything in common with...
...while Young was some 3,000 miles away in Washington, Democrat Willie Hensley, 33, an Eskimo, started to catch up. After graduating from George Washington University, Hensley concentrated on lobbying for federal aid for Alaska, helped win restoration of some 40 million acres to the state's natives, was elected a state senator in 1970. Hensley, who attacks the Republican Administration in Washington for not paying proper attention to Alaska, has a better than even chance of becoming the first Eskimo in Congress...
...former president of the state senate, Hammond, 52, is mayor of the borough of Bristol Bay and lives in the Eskimo fishing village of South Naknek...
When Luther and Ida Aguchak failed to make payments on their new snowmobile and freezer, Montgomery Ward went into small-claims court in Anchorage, Alaska. A summons was issued and mailed to the Aguchaks, who live in a remote Eskimo village 500 miles away. Though they received the notice, the Aguchaks had neither the time nor money to make the $186 overnight air trip that was necessary to get to court. When they failed to appear to answer the summons, a default judgment was entered against them, and that seemed to be that...
...ceremonial masks of the Indian tribes are less wild than the Eskimos'--they have less fear behind them. The simplified form of an Athabaskan fox-mask, a single piece of wood, doesn't convey a belief in the power behind it. The lush countryside of the Canadian coastal forest might explain this art's concentration on repeating patterns, and these forms are more refined than the colorless, stark Eskimo style. But they are also less striking. The white man's influence shows most clearly in an "Octopus bag" made of felt, cotton, calico and brightly colored polychrome beads--all brought...