Muhammad Ali, the Navaho and the Tibetans
[ by Charles Cameron — a knockout triple DoubleQuote from Maidu country ]
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This:
reminds me of this:
but also of this:
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In fact, we have three potential DoubleQuotes here:
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Muhammad Ali at one point wanted “his people” to return to Africa, away from the deadly white man, and no doubt it has occurred to some Navajo from time to time to wish the white man would return to Europe — while Puebloans may on occasions have wished the Navajo had remained with their Athabaskan kin in Canada..
But then, I’m Scots by heritage, British by subsequent conquest, and have invaded the United States myself in person, with a view to finding what American poet Gary Snyder calls “a sunny spot under a pine tree to sit at” here in California.
In what I understand to have been Nisenan Maidu country.