Word: flathead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than Indian braves. Among the Blackfeet, for example, a woman caught in adultery by her Indian husband had to submit to an instant nose job, performed with a skinning knife. Many of the white traders were exceptionally devoted to their Indian wives. When John ("Liver Eating") Johnson's Flathead wife, the Swan, was murdered by Crow warriors, for example, Johnson went on the warpath, killed some 300 Crows, and ate their livers in revenge...
...same rouged portraits of Lincoln and Washington clung to the walls, the same brass bell dominated the teacher's desk, the same science case held birds' nests and pickled fish. And in a one-room schoolhouse in the lower Flathead River Valley of northern Montana, Retired Teacher Lucy Blachly, still sharp and saucy at 78, smiled through swells of emotion and apologized to her greying former students-all of whom she remembered by name-for how she had treated them 60 years ago. "I do hope that none of you bears me ill will for being such...
...school each morning through snow or mud with two of her pupils, Homer and Percy McClarty. The three clung together for mutual comfort: she feared the farmyard geese that "hissed and nipped at my legs above my buttoned boots"; they feared the somber Blackfeet Indians, who fished in the Flathead River. The trio hurried along, since before every class Miss Blachly had to put all the lessons on the blackboard in her neat, round Palmer script for the students to copy-no one had a textbook...
...there can be few juicier plums than a massive, federally financed dam. But last week Republican Governor Tim Babcock of Montana showed up before a Senate Public Works subcommittee to oppose the Government's plan to build a dam in his state. The proposed Knowles Dam on the Flathead River, said Babcock, was an "unsound expenditure of the taxpayers' dollars that would cost the people of this country $259 million they do not need to spend...