Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Sitting Dog meets Standing Fox

Lord Kadizzle's Indian name is Sitting Dog.  Yesterday in his role as chauffeur for the old geezers that make up the cleaning crew for the Forest Service, Sitting Dog met with the Indians.  The Indians are still camped out to protest the copper mine that has taken over their sacred land.  As the geezers used the high pressure washer to clean the out house Sitting Dog decided to go over and meet the Indian protesters.  Indians always have a great sense of humor and it was fun talking with them.  As Sitting Dog spoke to the warriors he used the grabber to pick up some of the trash in their encampment.  In all fairness they were keeping the place clean.  One of the warriors pointed at the ground and said you missed a spot.  Sitting dog saw something round and brown.  As he reached for it Standing Fox said "Don't touch that it is an artifact".   Picking it up Sitting Dog realized it was a rusted lid to a tin can.  One mission Sitting Dog had was to find out how Indians used acorns.  The encampment was right in the middle of a place where to this day the Indians gather acorns.  This is how Sitting Dog was introduced to Standing Fox.  Sitting Dog had been speaking with a nice young fellow and asked him about the acorns.  He indicated he was not from this tribe, but his tribe was from an area in New Mexico where acorns were not harvested, but he pointed out Standing Fox and said that Standing Fox would know.  Standing Fox explained that the acorns were used to make a variety of treats including dumplings, cookies, and soup.

The mining plan for the area under the sacred ground is to hollow out a huge area beneath the surface. In this process vast quantities of ore will be removed.  To get the last portion of the ore a massive blast will be set off and the sacred ground will sink into a volcano like crater.  When Kadizzle first drove up in the official looking Forest Service truck he though it might be fun to tell the Indians the blast would occur today and they might wake up 1500 ft lower than where they went to sleep.

As Sitting Dog left the Indians were in good spirit and he told them they had the best room service any Indian could expect from the government.  In this case the government came into the Indian encampment replenished the toilet paper, cleaned the toilet, and picked up all the refuse.   Now just imagine how much better it would have been for Custer if he had simply showed up with toilet paper and cleaned the out houses.

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