http://margotmifflin.com/2010/05/arizona-death-trip-phantom-of-the-black-hills/ Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:13:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://margotmifflin.com/2010/05/arizona-death-trip-phantom-of-the-black-hills/comment-page-1/#comment-635 margot.mifflin Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:01:18 +0000 http://margotmifflin.com/?p=1536#comment-635 Wow--100? I suggest you grab a tape recorder and get your grandmother to tell you all she can. Wow–100? I suggest you grab a tape recorder and get your grandmother to tell you all she can.

]]> http://margotmifflin.com/2010/05/arizona-death-trip-phantom-of-the-black-hills/comment-page-1/#comment-633 Paula Ruiz- White Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:07:32 +0000 http://margotmifflin.com/?p=1536#comment-633 When I was a child growing up in Arizona I was always told along with my sisters "don't go outside in the sun as you'll get as black as an Indian and folks will think you're and Indian". This was of course in the 1960's. My grandmother raised us and she was a white as can be and was accepted into the white schools. She of course came from Spanish decent and her kin had white skin and blue eyes. The rules were simple in Arizona and to this day they haven't changed. "No speaking Spanish or no speaking Indian". Look it up, Arizona never bothered to change the rule. The fear was deep in my grandmother who is almost 100 years now. Our generation was not taught Spanish and if we wanted to learn it, we had to on our own. We would settle down as children to hear stories of Pancho Villa and Johnny Ringo and of course the dreaded indians. I have a wealth of knowledge in my head hoping to write about and I have passed it on to my daughter who has no interest. When I was a child growing up in Arizona I was always told along with my sisters “don’t go outside in the sun as you’ll get as black as an Indian and folks will think you’re and Indian”. This was of course in the 1960′s. My grandmother raised us and she was a white as can be and was accepted into the white schools. She of course came from Spanish decent and her kin had white skin and blue eyes. The rules were simple in Arizona and to this day they haven’t changed. “No speaking Spanish or no speaking Indian”. Look it up, Arizona never bothered to change the rule. The fear was deep in my grandmother who is almost 100 years now. Our generation was not taught Spanish and if we wanted to learn it, we had to on our own. We would settle down as children to hear stories of Pancho Villa and Johnny Ringo and of course the dreaded indians. I have a wealth of knowledge in my head hoping to write about and I have passed it on to my daughter who has no interest.

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