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Summer tune Mwgi C irt« Sunburns if tta fog w ill lif t , leave tta coals aid sweaters in tta closet, fish are jumpin (where tta water is still clean) and v® at ions can be justified Searthmg per taps for the anti tnetter of It s Yeggs ve rent lost weekend up fta Columbia to Roosevelt, a nearly nonaxistant town th irty miles past Biggs, on Such fine things vacations are In certain beautiful places, this is the time we find our selves pac ked in much closer together We star e tta beaches and the street, put on our tolerant, patient the Washington shore We went for the first annual pow v o v of ’ he Pine Creek band of the Yakamas Our friend Jatk Schwartz - - Indian Jack, the only redheaded Jewish Indian from Brooklyn we know - flew up from Santa Monica to be with his old friend Warner Jim . chief of the Pine Creek band and ex-Salmonscam felon, and Howard faces every day as we navigate tta human tide, or bexone delayed or end up in line waiting or being the one everyone ,s waiting to get at Never fails to delight and amaze me when I get a kind word or a smile from a stranger So nice, to feel Jim , chief of the Calilo, Jack s Indian fattar and an energy which counteracts the I m -in -a hurry take - care-of - me as - fast as you-can-what s- wronq w ith -lh is place it's-r«ot efficient enough attitude F ven a person s silence can shout this Warner s brother Nothing would do but that we should loin him on the river There are worse social obligations Because, without supervision, we cannot be trusted to come back, we went under the care of Testa, our message Why be i n a hur r y - - ever 9 Sum m er. wi n te r, remember we are rushing headfirst into death plucky day nurse who tiad never been to a pow wow "Savages,' we war red her, "absol ute savages ' The first afternoon floating in the Columbia, the whatever that is Five 'years ego this month, I lost a ver g fine man w ta at age 55, was ushered out of this wor Id on a Friday evening with his weeks page tack still in his river the people call C he wsna the sun baking our foreheads, the drumming and singing playsnq our cerebrial cortexes like a tar p, the I ndian children chattering around a floating log throwing handfuls of pocket Now I twve tta benefit of his gentle voice to help mud at aac h other, it was easy to stuff off canturiaa of rumored progress and be with the old growth humans who grew from the big water like fer ns and carries answer tta cosmic questions death involves for those of us get hiking tta trails of the physical world "Summertime' - - ta was tta one who taujht me roots Forgive us if we sem to romanticize There ,s no need To sit on the send under a yellow three quarter moon watching the Fancy Dancing ot a culture that was 1 2 ,0 0 0 gears old when Lewis and d a rk discoverdit, is to rise above any need to hyper bolize It a r e is a resonance ta re , a confection to place that has nothing that song, and still whispers it to me in any season Tta lilt,rx) words and fta sense uf the song are a slow moving river "And fta l i v i n ' is easy fish are jumpin and tta cotton is high Your r»addy s rich and your Mama s gjod look,n so baby - don 1 you cry * Hold onto, 'The liv in ,s easy * to do with real estate The people are tad tor free White settlers as welcome as the salmon that once were there for the taking Someone d esc rib ed In d ia n /w h it e re la tio n s as the meeting of a culture based on giving and a culture based on taking We re not at tta pow wow 30 minutes Arcadia before a young man gives Nurse lasha a bead necklace There s a purity in tta gesture that s tard to explain ? CACtieawiD TO«kOoaOB RMStf ftsncn ja Pow wows are family affairs, the people gathering to dance, feast, renew old friendships and pray 1 tay are as inseparable from tta earth they stand on as a stiodow is from the sun Their world, mostly taken from them, is tta marriage of wind and water . sun and earth One needn't know tta lanquage or customs to sense a wholeness not found in shopping malls It is 5 A lew decades w R D L xin g suggested that sch izo p h re n ia was a h e a lthy m ind s reaction io an insane w orld Today a sim ple s p lit p erson ality n o t enough These are the days of m u ltiple personality disorders of in d iv id u a l lives ruled by in te rn a l committees Absolutes are harder to fin d but as usual m chaotic times the absolutists are re adv to give us easy answers and they do draw an audience The general recipe fo r easy answers consists of a qu a rte r teaspoon of tru th a cup or two of conjecture and at least two cups o f em otional appeal No yeast m ind you There is always more death than life in the hands of a demagogue and yeast w ill not respond In wiser hands how ever yeast and water butter and flo u r s lig h tly warmed and handled g e n tly become the bread that feeds fam ilies villa ges and countrysides These are th in g s that passon life like the c h ild re n who are kept warm and handled gen tly Good bread does not resent unusual in g re die nts C hildren who are raised w ith care do not resent the diffe re n ce s in others Those who are c ru e lly taught to doubt themselves how ever w ill in th e ir weakness look fo r d iffe re n ce and call it weakness Given power they become ty ra n ts Given a m icrophone they produce v itu p e ra tiv e sarcasm and those easy answers We shouldn t underestim ate th e ir appeal Maybe Rush is just a snake oil salesman hut much o f the w orld th o u g h t the Nazis had some good points yet th e ir ovens were not fo r bread M (K/R 1 WUdMI ( HMAKMUIUAIUB, * f* i&CnUs tta sense of place resting at tta center of all that is 5 uaxaC’KMiP KSLHO not hollow Floating in the river tta people cal, Cta Wane, tta comets slamming into tta evening star, tta singing and tat Jr« .OCA lh » u ‘v » got a* by Th» a h o r l h a ir s , h u n g h ig h , r e v o lv in g on Th» pik», v » ar» 1h»trs drumming drowning petty illusions We smile, Nurse Tasha and self, aqreeinq without words Nothing more is reeded, a circle tas quietly Th» fa ll of m a n «tan d * a li» bvfor» B e e th o v e n , a Ir n lh befor» Hi’ ler Gr »gor vj Cor so closed, a center once more found H i r u v i q I w . i r ' l i a m i i'o in illl!U » lo » 6 O r a l w it h I h r p u b lic . 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