La Plaza de Santa Fe
Rich Lefty Whiteys Haggle and Discourse with Impoverished Navahos
whilst recently away from home i was lucky enough to observe culture in motion. in a rather spiffy shop on avenida de saint francis just off the plaza in downtown santa fe i watched a sixty-something white woman of slim design dressed casually in travel pink plunk down her platinum card for a quite lovely leather and silver belt. cost: a mere $1540. yes, $1540 to hold up her fashionable guachos.
but this was just the beginning of the fun.
not half an hour later i again encountered this same matron trying to be a lass. this time she was trolling for Indian goodies outside the Palace of 1000 Governors, as shown in the above photo. she had her eye on a splendid little hand-made Navaho doll. cost: $25.00. white woman offered ignorant savage $15.00. red woman who had made doll herself said $25.00. white woman said okay, $20.00. greedy, crafty, no-good red woman said $25.00. white woman got huffy, swelled out her nonexistent bosom, shifted the bag containing her fifteen hundred dollar belt from the spiffy shop across la plaza from one scrawny shoulder to the other, and snipped, oh, forget it. i was only buying it to do you a favor anyway.
and i wondered, where the fuk is geronimo when you need him?
whilst recently away from home i was lucky enough to observe culture in motion. in a rather spiffy shop on avenida de saint francis just off the plaza in downtown santa fe i watched a sixty-something white woman of slim design dressed casually in travel pink plunk down her platinum card for a quite lovely leather and silver belt. cost: a mere $1540. yes, $1540 to hold up her fashionable guachos.
but this was just the beginning of the fun.
not half an hour later i again encountered this same matron trying to be a lass. this time she was trolling for Indian goodies outside the Palace of 1000 Governors, as shown in the above photo. she had her eye on a splendid little hand-made Navaho doll. cost: $25.00. white woman offered ignorant savage $15.00. red woman who had made doll herself said $25.00. white woman said okay, $20.00. greedy, crafty, no-good red woman said $25.00. white woman got huffy, swelled out her nonexistent bosom, shifted the bag containing her fifteen hundred dollar belt from the spiffy shop across la plaza from one scrawny shoulder to the other, and snipped, oh, forget it. i was only buying it to do you a favor anyway.
and i wondered, where the fuk is geronimo when you need him?
posted by Bill Simpson at 5/15/2006 07:03:00 AM
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"The utmost good faith shall always be observed toward the Indians; their land and property shall never be taken from them without their consent; and in their property rights and liberty they never shall be invaded or disturbed." -- The Northwest Ordinance, one of the first laws to be enacted by the new U.S. Congress in 1787.
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