Word: metlakatlan
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...British Columbia and settled on Annette Island, in U. S. territory. Four years later an act of Congress gave them the land for their own. Today, in their fisheries and canneries, Metlakatla's 466 inhabitants make an average community profit of around $80,000 a year. Every male Metlakatlan owns store clothes, gets barbershop haircuts. Most of them own their own motorboats (value $2,000 to $20,000). The villagers get power from the community hydroelectric plant, recreation in the commu nity's $60,000 public hall, where Metlakatla's 60-piece band sometimes plays...
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