A Bennington Banner Post on Saturday, Saturday 26, 1970

                 This is  a post that Edward & Pegeen Fitgerald of WOR,  Kent, Connecticut from an article found in the Bennington Banner of Vermont.......                                        White Man Crazy

                A deserted farmhouse in a gullied field was

            pictured in a farm journal which offered a prize

            for the best 100 word description. An Indian took

            the prize with this:

  

                "Picture show white man crazy. Cut down 

            trees. Make big tipi. Plow hill. Water wash. Wind

            blow soil. Grass gone. Door gone. Squaw gone.

            Papoose too. No hay. No pony. Indian no plow land.

            Great Spirit make grass. Keep grass. Buffalo eat

            grass. Indian eat buffalo. Hide make tipi; make 

            moccasin. Indian no make terrace. All time eat.

            No hunt job. No hitch hike. No ask relief. No

            shoot pig. No build dam. No give dam. Indian

            waste noting. Indian no work. White man crazy."

       This was posted back in 1970, and as most of you know will 

ring true through out the ages. Even though my roots don't go back to the Western Indians, I feel that my New England Indian roots 

give me some leeway in what I believe is so true in this article.....