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Visiting a Rez, by One from Av2 (Av2 MON, 2008-2009)
I've found the book not only enjoyable but also very interesting.
About 12 years ago I was travelling in the US and passed by the places mentioned in the book (Coeur d'Alene, Walla Walla…). I can remember very clearly the towns and the indians. I can see myself shopping some food amongst them, in a supermarket. I felt mainly uneasy being there, as if I where entering someone else's house without their permision. Probably they felt uneasy with our presence, too.
Typically, there were many of them, about 8 or 10, sitting in the back of an old, dusty, noisy pick up. Exactly as described in the book. They mostly bought beer. Maybe they were going to have a party, but I thought that they were all alcoholics. They looked dirty, dusty, unhealthy and, I have to admit, a little untrustful.
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I thought I would never live in such a place. With such a people. I just wanted to run away from there.
I had mixed feelings – distrust, pity and guilt. Surely they blamed the whites for destroying their way of living, and surely they hated us just for the colour of our skin.
Thanks to Smoke Signals, now I understand a little more about them and about the way they are living at present on the rez.
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