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echo: indian_affairs
to: ROBIN ARNHOLD
from: SONDRA BALL
date: 1997-10-19 15:31:00
subject: religion

RA>  SB> a couple who just came back from a summer touring the west, inc
RA>  SB> the Grand Canyon.  They went to a couple of Indian rezes, and,
RA>  SB> apparently, picked up literature to read while there.  They cam
RA>  SB> telling me "Did you know that the Navajo don't like to be calle
RA>  SB> Navajo; and that only the Hopi should make Kachina dolls?"   "Y
RA>  SB> grinned.  And I thought, "It took a tour of the West, and proba
RA>  SB> few blunders on a reservation, but at least they're finally lea
RA>  SB> something."
RA> Better late than never.  This couple has a leg up on most non-Indian
RA> people in that they actually know something valid, no matter how lit
RA> that something is.
I think that's true,  And this couple allowed themselves to listen to 
others, instead of insisting on holding on to their prior belief 
systems, which is, in and of itself, a wonderful trait.
                 Sondra
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