Word: rancheria
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...killed in this Scout 22 Bucks 5 women & 3 children. We would have killed more women but [did not]owing to having attacked in the day time when the women were at work gathering Mescal. It sir is next to impossible to prevent killing squaws in jumping a rancheria even were we disposed to save them. For my part I am frank to say that I fight on the broad platform of extermination...
...exactly, is benefiting? Certainly Indians in a few tribes have prospered. In California, Christmas came early this year for the 100 members of the Table Mountain Rancheria, who over Thanksgiving picked up bonus checks of $200,000 each as their share of the Table Mountain Casino's profits. That was in addition to the monthly stipend of $15,000 each member receives. But even those amounts pale beside the fortunes made by the behind-the-scenes investors who bankroll the gaming palaces. They walk away with up to hundreds of millions of dollars...
...Santa Barbara, Calif., Chamber of Commerce does not include Sanford Darling's home on its tour of local attractions, but perhaps it should. TIME Correspondent Timothy Tyler visited Darling's small frame house on Rancheria Street. His report...
While the painter had clear ideas about his subject's countenance, the President already had his own judgment of the artist's work. There are two of Peter Kurd's paintings in the White House. One, called Rancheria, on loan from Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, hangs opposite the President's bed-where it is "the first thing I see in the morning." President Johnson likes to think of it as a view of his own west-central Texas hill country, although it is a scene from Kurd's New Mexico...
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