This guy get out much?
Reads like it’s ‘63. Or maybe 1970...and AIM is still occupying Alcatraz.
Navajo’s got kicked around a bit, no doubt about that. The Apache were meaner and they got a much nicer Rez...the White Mountains.
But modern Navajo’s can, like all Indians, leave the rez...head to Phoenix, Tucson, Flagstaff...and do. Went to school with a fair number of them. Ms. Benally who sat next to me in Differential Equations went on to Medical School, works on the reservation as an MD for the last 30 years.
Unemployment? Poverty? I agree. So why are the jobs being shipped to China - Apple could have an assembly plant in Chinle - and why are we importing Aboriginals from Mexico, when their distant cousins are already here and in need of a job?
And it ain’t like there’s any love lost between the Navajo, Apache and Comanche with the Mexicans. There’s a reason they came North out of Mexico Norte...no one treated them worse then the Spaniards and their descendants, the Mexicans. Ask Geronimo.
Fascinating article. I could almost see Billy Jack striding across the landscape again out near Winslow.
Good post. The other day I was talking to a person who was bemoaning the fact that Indians lived on terrible reservations in squalor. I said “ why don’t they just leave?” She said “it’s because they are so poor and it is two hours to anyplace from their reservation.”
I said “no it’s because their government check comes to the reservation”.
My ancestors walked behind a wagon till they got to Texas without a single government check and they have done alright.