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
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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
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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
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