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Originally Posted by Woodrow LI
Devils lake is fantastic. We are bit too far to get up there as often as we would like. The Badlands are very interesting,
You get to see many Pronghorn coming up? Beautiful critters. Some oics my wife took one time down in SD.
We were on our way to Pine Ridge.
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Yes. This has resurrected memories of some 40 years ago. My Lakota/French girlfriend was from the Standing Rock Reservation which I visited when taking her home. They gave me a very nice pair of their hard-soled (rawhide) moccasins when I left.
GREAT SPIRIT
Grant That I May Not Criticize My Neighbor
Until I Have Walked A Mile In His Moccasins
"Walk a mile in my moccasins to learn where they pinch."
Seeing the hard grounds in your Pronghorn photographs reminded me of the moccasins. Some of the Native American poetry is as good, in my eyes, as anything from any culture in the world.
"Only when all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted and the last fish has been caught, only then will you discover you cannot eat money."
~ Cree Prophecy
" Lose your temper and you lose a friend; lie and you lose yourself."
~Hopi
The next summer, at USC Berkeley, the Pine Ridge Shootout and Aquash case happened. I was so embarrassed I never went back. Years later I bought some fine Indian moccasins in Alaska and have worn Indian moccasins as house shoes ever since.
Some ten years later I worked here:
About the Mescalero Apache Tribe New Mexico
" What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."
~ Crowfoot, Blackfoot Warrior & Orator
I'm wearing moccasins now as I type.
I never thought I was an Indian, a citizen, nor a foreigner. I was a professional escapist.
WTF, somebody had to do it!
Time for my 2nd. coffee. Where you in Nam?