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    The Good Livin

    When you see a lizard you stop and you look to see
    is it green is it white?  look at the ring on its neck
    what color?  And you ask its blessing.  This is our
    Navajo Belief.
    The Navajo were starved out of Canyon de Chelly,
    rounded up and Forced on the 300 mile march to
    somewhere in New Mexico.  Many died along the
    way.  They are still bitter, even though they were
    allowed back.
    Now they have to let us on their Land to see
    the National Parks but they are curt and don’t welcome
    me with a smile.  I have to get out of my car
    and walk up to the check-in station to pay
    my two dollars and 50 cents so I can drive on
    the dirt road that goes through their land to look
    at the big rock formations that formed a backdrop
    for some John Wayne movie and many others,
    including “How the West Was Won,” done in
    1947 or something.  I must stay on the
    road or if I want to see more I can pay
    25 dollars to a guide to see the
    petroglyphs at the house of many hands, but do they
    show the really sacred stuff?  No one answers my
    direct questions About Indians and the White Man.
    I go to JD’s drive-in to
    get a Green Chili Hamburger with cheese and the
    workers, all of them behind the counter, getting me my
    order with Fries, are all Indians.  The Laundromat
    across the way, all Indians inside.
    I am on Indian Nation.

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