Word: logged
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...said earlier that the article was unsuccessful in dispelling stereotypes about Native Americans. I would now like to add that these pictures enhance the stereotypes created by this article. At the top of the page is a picture of two long haired Indians with guns leaning on a log cabin. The caption reads, "A choice between the reservation and mainstream America." The two bottom pictures are of Michael and me in our preppy sweaters. The implication appears to be that we were, uncivilized and uncouth, trapped on the reservation. However, now that we are at Harvard, we have adapted...
...know, we were all strangers that I morning," recalled Carol Sik, 47, as she leafed through an album of yellowing newspaper clippings. She was sitting with her husband Marino, 57, in the airy living room of their log house on the west bank of the Susitna River, about 100 miles north of Anchorage on the way to Fairbanks. The morning she refers to was March 5, 1959, when Carol, a wan, pretty girl of 22, left Detroit with her lean, plain-spoken husband and their eight-month-old daughter Lindy Lou for a new life. Their companions were some...
...such, they were among the last of America's homesteaders, joining a tradition of pioneers who for a century had been building log cabins and clearing a little of the remaining wilderness in exchange for 160 acres of free federal land. For Carol and Marino, it seemed a risk worth taking. "Nothing belonged to us in Detroit," Carol recalls. "We had a trailer on a lot that belonged to somebody else. Marino was a repairman for the gas company in the daytime and a policeman at a drive-in at night, and I never saw him." Like the others...
...porcupine meat. They planted a garden on a cleared acre of land lent by Shorty Bradley, who had trapped and hunted in the area off and on since 1939. Marino Sik cleared two acres and built a barn, and worked late into the cold autumn nights to finish a log lean-to for his trailer. He was sick of trying to work communally, he said, telling the others, "You ask me for help, I'll give it to you. But it's between...
...coached in log, in rain with headsets, without headsets." Restic said...