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Lisa Nakamura’s article “Indigenous Circuits” analyzes the brief partnership between this tribe and Fairchild Semiconductor, which ended after protests in 1975. In 1998, this tribe’s leader resigned due to accusations of misusing credit cards, while a previous leader resigned after being accused of faking travel vouchers. The Bennett Freeze affected this tribe, whose families were impoverished by a 1930s “livestock reduction.” (10[2])An effort promoted by Philip Johnston was memorialized by a (10[1])statue of a crouching soldier (10[1])in a city established by this tribe, (10[1])whose English name comes from a circular formation of entrada sandstone. (10[1])High rates of lung cancer among this tribe resulted from over three decades of uranium (10[1])mining (10[1])on their lands. (10[1])For 10 points, what Native American tribe supplied (10[1])code talkers (10[6])to the (10[3])Marines (10[2])during World War II? ■END■

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