Word: winnebagos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slide is all the more galling to Winnebago people because they believe that it has been caused largely by stock-market confusion. President John V. Hanson, son of the founder, claims that investors have been worried by reports of disappointing shipments in the "mobile home" industry, and have got that mixed up with Winnebago's "motor home" business. The name is about the only similarity. Mobile homes, despite the term, are usually towed to one spot and left there to serve as a family's permanent dwelling. Motor homes, also called recreational vehicles and sometimes "fun machines...
Around the factories and Forest City, Iowa, offices of Winnebago Industries, a maker of vehicles for the growing army of U.S. campers, bulletin boards list hourly quotations on the company's stock for the benefit of the many officers and employees who are shareholders. Lately, the boards have been flashing a mystery story. Though the company's sales and profits are rising swiftly, the stock price fell from an adjusted June high of $48.25 to an August low of $32.13; last week it closed at $38.50. One result has been to diminish on paper the fortune of Winnebago...
...made me very sad when I read that Max Funmaker, a Winnebago Indian, was fined for possessing two dead bald eagles...
What the writer called "Indian lore" is actually Winnebago religion, many times older than this country. The eagle and its feathers are a significant part of that religion. Funmaker had a right to kill those two eagles...
Such was the argument advanced by the attorney for Max Funmaker, an improbably named Winnebago from Black River Falls, who was charged by federal authorities with the illegal possession of two dead bald eagles, a species even more endangered than the buffalo ever was. Funmaker conceded that he had shot the eagles down-presumably with spiritual intent. It was a somehow unlikely collision of the white man's belated ecological law with an Indian lore that for centuries has taken nature to be sacred. The judge let Funmaker off with a $100 fine...