Word: choctaw
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...crystal lakes, whole hillsides blazing with azaleas, potentially rich farm lands -that are sure to entice others to brave the wilds and tame them too. Bartram himself is next going into the largely unexplored territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi that is controlled by the Creek and Choctaw Indian tribes. He looks forward to the wonders-and the solace -that he will surely continue to find in America's vast wilderness...
After spending a year in New Haven and discovering he didn't like it, he decided to try Cambridge. But he found it wasn't much better here, and in 1970 he went back home to his tribe, the Choctaw in Oklahoma...
JOHNNY BENCH and Mark Goodman have a number of things in common: they are both from the Southwest, they are both one-eighth Choctaw Indian, and they both had baseball in the blood early. At that point their careers divide for a while. Goodman, his knee battered in high school athletics, quit the game as a Cornell freshman. He took a degree in philosophy, tended bar for a time, and after working for United Press International came to TIME in 1966 as a reporter. He has since written for the Sport, Show Business, Cinema and Nation sections. Bench, less...
...Reds Pitcher Jim Maloney, eight years Bench's senior: "He'll come out to the mound and chew me out as if I were a two-year-old. And I like it." That was only the half of it. Squinting menacingly at rival pitchers over his high Choctaw cheekbones, the young Oklahoman made his biggest noise at the plate that first year, belting 15 homers and driving in 82 runs-almost precisely as he had predicted he would at the beginning of the season...
...Choctaw Indians who invented it, lacrosse was a contest of skill and guts. To an unfamiliar spectator today, it is a game where the players try harder to decapitate one another with webbed sticks than to score goals...