Discuss: The Crying Indian

Jean, more shopping makes me more comfortable. I shop for items that I can’t or don’t want to make/ create/ fashion/ cast, etc. I hate going shopping but I’d hate to have to sew together enough cloth (I’b be using cotton that I had to pick, gin, spin & weave myself) to keep making enough socks so that I wouldn’t have to wash them every day, just to wear them to work. The same goes for work shirts & pants. How am I going to make a good set of workboots (need oil & chemical resistant soles & uppers)?

Greg writes “this article seems to have been written to showcase the resume of a select group of advertisers.”  Wha . . . ?
How is it possible for someone even to think that reading this?  Did he even read the article?  Orion doesn’t even HAVE advertisers, so who is being “showcased”???

Growing up in Oregon I have early memories of taking back the glass milk bottles (to be reused) and then shortly afterwards witnessing the cardboard ‘throw away’ cartons take over. Sadly, I didn’t even know there was once a great Falls on the Columbia river or that Google was now sprawling on its bank. I’m so glad I read your article. I feel like I’ve been hit over the head with a thick tube of aluminum.

I had no idea how much of my perceived American culture was nothing more than a series of ad campaigns. And the American dream? I bet that was an ad too!

I took Ameican Indian Studies at St,Scolastica ,Duluth Mn. the big difference being instead of learning about the old white men that were in charge we got to know of the old white nuns that are in charge.hell bent on making a profit come hell or high water.

The Native Amercians were treated worse than the slaves.  Our ancestors, not us were responsible for pushing the Native American to distinction…all for what?  It is all wrong.
However, I will coninute my nieve childhood memory of the crying Indian today.  The ad had a lasting impression on me.  I would NEVER throw garbage out the window…garbage goes in trash can.  I volunteer and keep my small are of this earth litter free.  why does everything good always have to go back to “Politics”?

Ginger, I agree with much of your position, but let me tell you a story. When I was a little girl my mother thought it would be character building to make me go out to the streets and pick up trash. Coinkidinkily it was at the time this ad ran.

I have since grown up, raised a son that I made to go out into the streets to pick up trash and to this day do not walk past a piece of litter without stooping to retrieve to and whisk it away to the nearest receptacle.

So, as bad as the subtext here most people don’t consider is, this ad DID change a lot of people’s thinking. I remember when it looked like that here in California, these days, comparatively speaking, it’s immaculate.

Much respect,

Kelly