Word: blackfeet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faces were daubed with red, black, green and white war paint, their heads shorn except for a scalp lock. They squatted and waited before an incongruous background : a flying field in the smiling English hills. There were 13 men in this unique parachute unit - twelve Apaches, Mohaves, Navahos, Creeks, Blackfeet, Hopis, and one youngster from Brooklyn who "had become a tribesman by the ancient ceremonial of cutting a finger and mingling his blood with that of an Apache. Beyond the standard paratrooper's armament, they carried the most bizarre equipment ever seen in modern Europe, including nylon garrotes...
...that nobody supposes he has barnstormed for his health through 45 States in the past twelvemonth, he made formal announcement that he is a candidate for the GOPresidential nomination. > He disposed of another ritualistic prerequisite for election by being inducted, feather bonnet and all, as "Flying Eagle," into the Blackfeet Indian tribe at Great Falls, Mont...
...cent of a people thousands of whom would look upon a hundred dollars a year as a substantial raise." Basis of reform is the Indian Reorganization Act, six years old. With its protection former hunting and war tribes are working out a supportable existence in cattle ranching; the Blackfeet are at-but not over-the threshold of self-support ; the Flatheads have defended and developed a power site of which they were to be robbed. Ninety-eight tribes and bands have organized local governments; 67 have incorporated for business purposes. But the Act and its administrators are under constant...