Re: Crows and Navajos

From: aryeh_lev
Message: 27511
Date: 2003-11-23

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> I checked the map; it seems I confused Crow with Cheyenne.

Okay, that makes a little more sense.

From the Navaho reservation I remember passing at a gas
> station two school busses with children so well-dressed and -kempt
> that the busses might have as well have in Japan. But they might
have
> been Hopi, of course.

Was this by any chance near the Catholic boarding school at St.
Michael's, Arizona? The BIA boarding schools were also still active
at that time. In any case, schoolbuses, no matter how well the
children in them are kempt, are hardly an integral part of any
indigenous American culture (or IE culture, for that matter, although
the wheels on them do go 'round and 'round :-))

Jedediah