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COPPER NICKEL AND BLACK DIAMOND: It's not too late to enter Copper Nickel's Literary Contest!

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OKAY, so the connection is a stretch .  But when  COPPER NICKEL (the journal of art and literature published by the University of Colorado Denver) announced their first fiction and poetry CONTEST , I had to check it out.  The term copper nickel was originally applied to the Indian Head cent coin.  From 1913-1938, U.S. mints began producing the Indian Head nickel . The front side of the coin features the profile of an iconic Native American man, said to be a compilation of features from 4 prominent Native American men: Iron Tail, an Oglala Sioux chief; Two Moons, a Cheyenne chief; Big Tree, a Kiowa chief; and possibly John Big Tree, a member of the Seneca Nation . The model for the bison on the back side of the coin is believed to have been BLACK DIAMOND , a bull from NY's  Central Park Zoo.   He lived a long life but died a rather humbling death. Now, let's talk about the literary Copper Nickel.   This impressive journal isn't just a publication for student writin