Don’t Know if I Like This:

A few years ago, while out in Cody, Wyoming, I met a fella of Shoshone decent. We sat and talked a bit and he told me of growing up on the reservation, which was shared by the Cheyenne and a Shoshone minority. The Cheyenne looked down on the Shoshone, saying that they shouldn’t be on the reservation because their blood lines were so diluted. This went on for years with barbs being tossed by the majority Cheyenne people.

Finally, in the heat of one of those sessions, one old Shoshone stood up and said, “The only reason your blood lines aren’t thinned is because Cheyenne women are so ugly, that even the white men won’t have them.”

We both laughed, but I think he was laughing harder.

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