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SARANDA, Albania — Encrusted with tiny shells and smelling strongly of the sea, a 2,400-year-old Greek jar lies in a saltwater bath in Durres Museum, on Albania’s Adriatic coast.
Many of the Western Indian tribes who engaged in warfare with white civilians and soldiers were led by chiefs whose names remain familiar to most Americans.
Examples are Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull of the Lakota, Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé, the Apaches’ Cochise and Geronimo and the half-Comanche war leader Quanah Parker.
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In her home, Maralyn Budke has a series of framed checks hanging on a wall. The first check, from former New Mexico Gov. Garrey Carruthers, is for $1. The second is for $2, the third $3 and the fourth $4. The checks, totaling $10, are the yearly salaries she insisted on receiving from Carruthers, a Republican, while she was his chief of staff from 1987 to 1990.
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