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  • Green ideologues are religious fundamentalists like any other. skeena

    More Anti-Science Eco-Activism in British Columbia - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • How paranoid and ignorant are these people? skeena

    More Anti-Science Eco-Activism in British Columbia - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • "Plenty get well, skeena mowitch," "wagee man come plenty soon," and she could have kissed their brown faces in her joy.

    Selected Stories of Bret Harte Bret Harte 1869

  • But he also learned that she was a real Indian, and that there were three or four others like her, male and female, in that vicinity; that from a "skeena mowitch" (little baby) they were all like that, and that their parents were of the same color, but never a white or "waugee" man or woman among them; that they were looked upon as a distinct and superior caste of Indians, and enjoyed certain privileges with the tribe; that they superstitiously avoided white men, of whom they had the greatest fear, and that they were protected in this by the other Indians; that it was marvelous and almost beyond belief that

    Under the Redwoods Bret Harte 1869

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