Volume 16 , Issue 43

NW Okie's Journey

Is it real or . . . plastic? I am talking about the duck stuck in the frozen Weaselskin creek at the north end of Vallecito Reservoir? It is plastic!

It is finally beginning to look a lot like Winter here in the southwest corner of Colorado, at Vallecito Reservoir, Northeast of Durango. We have gotten out with our Canon eos rebel SL1 digital camera, zooming in on some interesting scenery of the San Juan National Forests and Vallecito Lake here in our neck of the woods.

This is a reflection of the snow covered mountains reflecting in Vallecito Lake. I did not notice the white specks at the far edge of the lake, but do those appear to be ducks in the water?

This week we dig into more of the history of the Indians (Native Americans). We found that the students of history, and of the Indian question in particular, knew that the early Indians were not "human tigers and red devils." The Indians of 1904 were not a lot of low, lazy, dirty, shiftless ragamuffins (except where they had been made such by good-for-nothing whites). Many others share this knowledge today.

Another question is, "How many who know it will tell you, with a precision that could decide the fate of empires, that absolutely too much is said, done, and written about the Indians, who are fast dying out? And . . . What have we done for, to the Native Americans?"

They were reporting back in 1904 with this phrase, "But my dear, oracular wiseacres, let me tell you that we shall have Indians with us (at least Navajos) until the boom of doom is sounded, and it will take generations to say, to do, and to write enough in order to undo what has been done, or to supplant the utterly false and untrue ideas and theories of the past."

Good Night & Good Luck!
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