Informative Evening

I'm in Crestone tonight. Just had dinner and attended two great programs with Anrahyah. First, a dinner by the charter high school with a slide show about India, where their school is going next year.

I had no idea how beautiful and fascinating that country is. Anrahyah commented that India is a very diverse country, more so than our own. The part we saw was in extremely rugged and beautiful terrain at the edge of the Himalayas.

Then, over to the Colorado College extension for a program by Apache Indians about their former lands in this area, and about Apache everyday life. This was presented by three Indians who did a fine job talking about the daily lives and dress of their people.

There was a degree of bitterness about the white man. At one point it was compared to the US sacking of whole villages in Vietnam, where one of the men had served. Shooting the dogs, shooting the farm animals, and burning. That's what happened to us, he said. For the most part, bitterness was kept in check--but it was rightly there.

There's more about the Jicarilla Apache at www.jicarillaonline.com