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Word: harragara (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...fall day in 1946, some 300 Indians of the Oto tribe sat themselves down in a solemn, elm-shaded circle near Ponca City, Okla., and received a delegation of white men. As the ceremonies began, Moses Harragara, an elder of the tribe, handed a copy of a manuscript to the boss white man, Princeton Librarian Julian P. Boyd. It was no ordinary document. President Thomas Jefferson had written it and handed it personally to Oto Chief Standing Buffalo in Washington in 1806. Librarian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 51 to Go | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

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