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Sophia C Vackimes <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 13 Jun 1997 19:38:36 -0400
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On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Byron Johnson wrote:

> Actually, it is a little known fact of fractured prehistory that the Anasazi
> domesticated both Pleistocene horses and camels, becoming both fearsome
> raiders and masters of the trackless southwestern deserts! Eventually the
> Pueblo Indian Rangers, using a newly patented six-shot revolving atl-atl,
> ended the Anasazi threat, eventually killing the Anasazi camel heards in
> Chaco Canyon and forcing abandonment of that stronghold.
>
> Now you know the rest of the story . . .
> ----------------------
> Byron Johnson, Director
> Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum
> P.O. Box 2570, Waco, Texas 76702-2570
> E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
> ------------------------------
> "...Unless a people are educated and enlightened it is idle
> to expect the continuance of civil liberty or the capacity
> for self-government."
> Texas Declaration of Independence,  March 2, 1836.
>
Dear Mr. Ranger hall Director:
I had a mental lapsus and wrote the wrong indian tribe.  Of course wrong
millenium, no horses in American etc.  My apologies.
But I do understand that the Keresan Pueblo indians actually practice the
chicken pulling sport on the Day of Santiago.
Sophia

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