Word: slavey
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...already known as the "first Canadians." Now 13,000 native Indians and metis (of mixed European and Indian stock) who inhabit the Mackenzie River Valley in Canada's Northwest Territories are about to become the region's biggest landlords. With drums beating a steady cadence and 1,000 Dogrib, Slavey, Chipewyan and Cree Indians and metis looking on, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney last week signed a tentative agreement calling for $403 million and 109,000 sq. mi. of federal lands to be turned over to native peoples in the western subarctic end of the region that stretches across...
...Goodspeed's latest New York entry, 1927's The Five O'Clock Girl, is as perishable as a butterfly's wings and possesses the same gossamer enchantment. In this never-ever land, a laundry-girl slavey, Patricia Brown (Lisby Larson), develops a crush on a bachelor socialite, Gerald Brooks (Roger Rathburn), and telephones his penthouse every afternoon...