Word: logs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through deep snowdrifts, was finally guided into the Indian camp by the smoke of a funeral pyre that signaled another death that day. The only visible signs of life were half-starved, whimpering dogs and wisps of smoke curling from tent tops. Inside the infested canvas tepees and unchinked log shelters, Miss Wilson's flashlight picked out three acutely ill Indians. Two of the victims had almost complete membranes covering their throats, slowly choking them to death. The third had just had a similar membrane removed by another Indian who had reached in with a pair of pliers, yanked...