Word: minocqua
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...celebrated confrontation, Mohawks faced down Quebec police and army troops 18 miles west of Montreal in a battle to prevent weekend golfers from putting into their ancestral graves. At the same time, Chippewa Indians, in northern Wisconsin, fought what has become an annual battle on the shores of Lake Minocqua. Their adversaries, local fishermen armed with rocks and insults, fear that the Indians' spearfishing will deplete the supply of walleyed pike and drive away sport fishermen. Though the Chippewa have voluntarily limited the size of their annual catch, they resent the fact that their ancestral claims are begrudged as concessions...
Stevenson felt the need of a rest. He spent most of the daylight hours loafing on the lodge's flagstone patio, wandered only occasionally down to Lake Minocqua, 70 yds. away, for a little halfhearted casting. Evenings he lolled in the bearskin-draped living room before a fieldstone fireplace big enough to take 7-ft. logs, which were hauled automatically from the basement at the touch of a button. He went to bed at 9:30 every night to sleep under the stars, seen through the shatterproof glass roof of his bedroom...
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