The Dine' (I use the term Navajo because most people outside are
more familiar with that) are a very proud people who would resent
being made fun of like that.

To the Dine', we are an alien people out of touch with the
rhythms of the land, who are obsessed with consumer goods,
technology, money, or bigotry. Even such whites are ourselves
who do see what history has done to the Dine' and find it
appalling, are viewed as possibly having egotism.

The Dine' are more impressed by whites who listen first then
act later in small ways that fit what the Dine' already do.

You have to live with the Dine' least a couple years before you
can even begin to understand the challenge of introducing a
new technology in a culturally appropriate manner.

The Eternal Squire


On Jan 29, 8:50 am, "RST Engineering" wrote:
That's true. They sent one kid off to MIT and he came back with a degree in
Electrical Engineering. When he got back home he found that the communal
restroom had no lights, so to show his gratitude to the tribe he ran
electricity to the bathroom.

So far as we know, that was the first Indian ever to wire a^head for a
reservation.

{;-)

Jim

"John Smith I" wrote in ...



Some reservations have sent men to the best colleges and have some of the
best attorneys in the world.