i googled a question of how many reservations there are in New Mexico and there was no site that gave me that information. I'll need to find my map of NM and count them myself.
and i guess that when i said, live like an Indian, what i'd had in mind were reservation indians and those on their fringes. There are of course, persons of Native heritage that live all over the place and among all of the rest of us. But i guess i am thinking about Rez indians. The indians that went where white people told them to go and stayed there. Reservations. Spend a little time thinking about what that word means. Reservation. How those "in charge", identified land as such and told people to go there and stay put. Laws were enacted. Treaties signed. Treaty. think about that word, too. And think about how these things aren't just "stories". But the history upon which Today breathes. Here, where i live, is Alamo, Navajo Nation. Just on past Magdalena. These are people i shop for groceries with, spend time at the laundromat with. But that's pretty much the extent of it.
one of the first things about indians, about, i think, all indigenous peoples, is the common understanding of taking only what you need. Take only what you NEED. Give Thanks.
