Word: reds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these works. The hat, for example, is an image every English major at college encounters as far back as the medieval balladeers who sang of the brave Sir Patrick Spens, who drowned leaving no trace but a floating hat. In Washington's scissors there is the suggestion of red tape and the hint of emasculation...
...Coca-Cola trucks, a fleet that Coke officials claim is second in size only to that run by the U.S. Post Office, will be decked out in charcoal and beige uniforms that suggest a football referee improbably wearing a baseball batting helmet. They will carry bright red Coke order books...
...from being wooden, Deloria says, Indians are wildly comic. He invokes two favorite subjects of Indian mirth. One is Custer, who was found wearing "an Arrow shirt," and the other is Columbus. Indians, watching his landing, groaned, "There goes the neighborhood." Deloria cites bumper-sticker slogans: "God is Red" and "We Shall Overrun." There are other contemporary jokes, like the one about a poll which disclosed that while only 15% of the Indians wanted U.S. forces to get out of Viet Nam, 85% wanted U.S. forces to get out of America. The source of Indian humor, Deloria makes clear...
Termination and Tribalism. The book ranges from the origins of scalping to differences between the new black and the old red nationalism. But Deloria really wants to talk about topics that few white Americans know anything about -termination and tribalism...
...Then blacks, who could not really be assimilated because of their color, and some whites who gave thought to the strength and vitality lost with the old ways, began to complain. Indians, Deloria says, have always objected. For more than 100 years they have been desperately trying to practice red nationalism in a white land. In Deloria's opinion, the termination policy, which implies integration of Indians, is a loser's game. It has not worked and it will not work. It creates hardship among Indians, and it does not, in the long run, save money. Indians...