News From Indian Country
Story & Photos By Arigon Starr
We’re at Stanford Pow-Wow, third day in, we’ve made at least… at least two thousand tacos and here this one is, all dolled up with her long painted nails and big earrings and big hair, just turning it over and over in that big pan... pulls up her hand… four long nails and one short one right in the middle... Can you imagine some new-ager white guy eating an Indian taco for the first time and they bite into some long-@#$ fingernail… And says… “It’s a sign! My great-great-grandmother, Cherokee Princess Little Feather, is here with me now!” Five pounds of dough and one broken nail…
Story & Photos By Arigon Starr
We’re at Stanford Pow-Wow, third day in, we’ve made at least… at least two thousand tacos and here this one is, all dolled up with her long painted nails and big earrings and big hair, just turning it over and over in that big pan... pulls up her hand… four long nails and one short one right in the middle... Can you imagine some new-ager white guy eating an Indian taco for the first time and they bite into some long-@#$ fingernail… And says… “It’s a sign! My great-great-grandmother, Cherokee Princess Little Feather, is here with me now!” Five pounds of dough and one broken nail…