Word: narraganset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indian Offensive. Aroused by the possibilities of victory, other tribes are besieging Tureen with their demands. His eight pending suits now include the Oneida claim to 300,000 acres in New York State, the Narraganset claim to 3,200 acres in Rhode Island and the Western Pequot claim to 800 acres in Connecticut. Says Tureen, who lives in a farmhouse outside Calais, Me., but flies about new England in his own Cessna: "It's their land. Legally it's theirs, and they can have it back...
Stafford Springs, Connecticut, was originally discovered by the Mohegan and Narraganset Indians, who said the waters made them feel lively. The springs contain iron held in solution by carbonic acid, native alkali, marine salt and sulfur. These chemicals, according to a local expert, give the spring waters "a strong ferruginous taste and when first drunk frequently occasion nausea, even to puking," but they are "best for skin afflictions and ulcers of all kinds, dropsies in the first stages, debility, weakness of eyes and several kinds of fits." The springs can be reached by a stagecoach that leaves from The Sign...
...Harvard swimming armada will sail up Narraganset Bay to Providence on Saturday for an aquatic attack on Brown scheduled to begin about...
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