“Your father is trying to... «The Pale-Faced Lie»

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  22 января 2022

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  “Your father is trying to find himself,” she said. “It’s hard to be a Cherokee in the East. In Fort Defiance, he had Indians around him every day. He had a true purpose. Now he feels lost without his circle of Navajo and Cherokee friends.”

  “Ah, really?” I tried to sound sympathetic, but what bullshit! Dad’s true purpose was breaking the law and carrying on with young women. Did she really feel sorry for him, or was this how she rationalized what he had done?

  “His work for the BIA in Washington has made him long for his Cherokee roots. Many of the workers at headquarters are Anglos, and he feels abandoned. Once he works through this, he’ll return.”

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