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  • n  a lodge consisting of a frame covered with matting or brush; used by nomadic American Indians in the southwestern United States

  • Vice President Curtis ("Egg Charley") is roundly ridiculed for his presidential ambitions, for his ornate office ("a cross between a tribal wickiup and a Sultan's seraglio .
  • Giving up corporation law in New York for a squalid miner's wickiup, Matt Devlin soon stops digging and turns to honest usury instead, buying out the claims of desperate miners.
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  • Thousands of fish die as water drops in Deschutes
    BEND, Ore. (AP) - Thousands of fish are dead after state water officials dropped the level of the Deschutes River southwest of Bend. The trout, sculpin and whitefish were discovered late last week in small pools and a dried-up channel of the river. The Oregon Water Resources Department has been reducing flows into the Deschutes in order to build up the water supply in the Wickiup Reservoir. ...
    Oct. 20, 2013 - KTVL Medford
  • ODFW weighs emergency Deschutes fishing closure
    Low water levels on the Deschutes River have prompted the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to consider closing the river to anglers from Wickiup Reservoir to Benham Falls.
    Oct. 18, 2013 - KTVZ Bend

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