Make my day, stranger!

Comment #6

Rip Snorter — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:38:41 GMT

Strange doings. Jack

Comment #5

shalini — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:32:27 GMT

:-)

Comment #4

Rip Snorter — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:46:05 GMT

Those are just my own personal opinions as a close outside observer. You'll find a lot of differing opinions about all of it. Most whites in the Gallup and Farmington areas would agree with your first statement and would disagree with me, though a few take a more romantic view, or humanitarian views, and would disagree with me from those positions. The NAs would disagree from positions of their own. My answer to you is worth about the price of the electrons required to keep it on t... [ More ]

Comment #3

shalini — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 08:36:54 GMT

Jack thanx....

Comment #2

Rip Snorter — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 06:50:19 GMT

Thanks for the comment. The tribes are disfranchised Americans for the most part. There's never been normalization of relations with them, so they live in a sort of limbo, mostly. The nomadic plains tribes lost their culture over a hundred years ago and most pueblo tribes far earlier than that. Only a few isolated tribes such as the Hopi and Zuni have maintained any of their original culture, though some rudiments of the religions survive elsewhere, but dying fast. Most tribes have lost... [ More ]

Comment #1

shalini — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 04:00:33 GMT

Educate me please....I've read this article and another one of the LP comments about a couple of weeks ago regarding the Indian reservations....just for my knowledge, what is the scene with the reserves...their attitudes vis a` vis the others in life, work etc...are they really by and large a regressive and lazy lot taking advantage of their special status or is it that they have not been able to get their fair share of opportunities in life...I know this is not about your article but I have bee... [ More ]

Original Blog Entry: Make my day, stranger!

Rip Snorter — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 19:18:15 GMT