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...there. The Dubois area was once the largest railroad-tie-producing region in the U.S., and Burch Center director Sharon Kahin will take visitors to camps once inhabited by Bunyanesque Scandinavian immigrants who hand-hewed ties with razor-sharp precision. The area is also the home of the Mountain Shoshoni, and archaeologist Larry Loendorf will lead hikes to the wooden structures they built to trap the bighorn sheep that were the staple of their diet, and to the site of giant petroglyphs used in their religious rites...
EchoHawk has always resisted typecasting. The son of a Pawnee father and a mother of German ancestry, he became a devout Mormon and attended Brigham Young University. After graduating from the University of Utah College of Law, he worked as a tribal lawyer for the Shoshoni. When he took over as attorney general in 1991, he angered many in that tribe and others by supporting a state constitutional amendment that banned casino-style gambling, an industry that many tribes depend on for their livelihoods. "I think that issue helped show the people of Idaho that I would do my duty...
...Shoshoni-Bannock people of the Fort Hall reservation in Idaho secured their right to use 581,000 acre-feet of water flowing through the Snake River under an 1868 treaty. The tribe will use the water for farming and sell any excess...
...places), the conference is also earning itself the nickname of "Woodstockholm." Students have set up a tent city complete with a movie theater for kids too hopped up on amphetamines to s]eep-at the abandoned airport of Skarpnack, just south of the city. Chief Rolling Thunder, an honorary Shoshoni medicine man, chanted invocations while 50 members of the Hog Farm, a peregrinating U.S. commune, threw tobacco into a camp fire, a ritual that is supposed to ward off violence...
...tribes were gathered for their annual powwow in Sheridan, Wyoming. The Arapaho came, and the Shoshoni and the Cheyenne. And as they met, they pondered the weighty question: Who would be elected Miss Indian American of 1966? Last year it was a Kiowa squaw and before that an Arapaho. This year the judges faced south and chose a pretty Pueblo maiden. As beauty queens go, Wahleah Lujan, 18, might be a mite plump, but she had a face Pocahontas could envy and plenty of other assets: a sophomore at Colorado's Fort Lewis College, her primitive Indian abstractions...