Monday, November 16, 2009

Unforgettable thats what you are.

Back in the 1880's there was a Paiute Indian called Wokova. He taught all the Indians that if they danced something called the ghost dance that all the white people would vanish and the buffalo and game would return and be abundant once more. The ghost dance religion was a variation on Christianity but the white officials at the reservation did not understand it as much. The Ghost dance spread like wildfire among the tribes of the west. He brought them hope as at that point they had lost almost everything they had. Their way of life, their land, everything. And as they began dancing the white officials slowly began sounding the alarm and magnifying the situation until what happened was the wounded knee massacre. But it really was a culimination of American Indian policy from the start. Anyhow sometimes I feel that way. Like just checking out of everything. I have an ancestor my Grandfathers's dad who walked out of the New york stock exchange and started a new life on a farm in New Jersey. SOmetimes thats what I feel like doing.

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