Pudgy Indian

On Saturday, Felicia and I went to the Celilo Falls Memorial at Celilo Village. Other than traffic noise, it is oddly quiet. We ran into Rhonda, David Liberty, Andy Norris, and a few other folks we knew there. We shopped around but didn't buy anything, then Felicia and I had to head to a concert in Vancouver.

We walked Rhonda to her car at Celilo Park, just across the freeway from the village and next to Chewana. We tossed rocks into the water and Felicia tried to skip a few with a little success. Rhonda, Felicia and I all had a good time by that calm river taking pictures and laughing.

Felicia and I headed to our car, back across the freeway and on the ride home, I knew how to get the idea through to the little girl just what the shit face American government did in order to kill off more Indians as well as salmon and a huge eco system.

"You know that film footage we show at the beginning of [Native Nations TV] show? You know, of the Indians fishing the big falls?"

"Yes," she said.

"That's where we were," I informed her.

Felicia's was confused.

"You know where Rhonda parked her car? You know where we were tossing stones into the river?"

She nodded.

"That is where the falls were, well, are, buried under all of that water."

Her jaw dropped.

As we drove by The Dalles Dam, the machine that murdered the falls, and the U.S. government, the monster behind the machine, we flipped it off in defiance. I wondered when the falls will be heard again. The dams won't last forever, but it looks like we Indians will, much to the disfavor of the U.S. genocidal government.

We also heard of a woman whose family has lived in the village for many hundreds of generations. She will be removed and her home bulldozed because her family dared to defy the U.S. genocidal government and refuse to sign up with a federally recognized tribe which would have meant moving to that rez for a certain period of time. They didn't want to leave. Now the Corps of Engineers will be kicking them off and bulldozing their home. That, my friends, is why white men like to have control over our identity. They can more easily terrorize us into submission should we uppity red niggers get out of hand, or, they could do it just for the fun of it, like it seems they are doing to this family. Thank you whitey! Thank you for telling us what is and isn't Indian. Thank you for terrorizing our peoples to this day. Just kidding! I really mean to say FUCK OFF! Like you haven't stolen enough from us already. Us and so many others. When will it be e(fucking)nough already! Jesus FUCK! Is their no end to your fucking cruelty...? I didn't think so.