Monday, July 4, 2011

Indian Natives

In my very recent research ramblings I have learned of the existence of the Caddo Nation. This is a meshing of several native American tribal groups who once inhabited what is now East Texas and other parts of the central United States such as Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Most of those peoples were removed to Oklahoma where their languages are blended together, sort of. Anyway, the word Texas or Tejas is loosely based on a Caddo word meaning friendship. The word Caddo itself is the native American term for the "real chief" or the "real Caddo." So, anyway, isn't it funny that this word "Caddo" also sounds vaguely like the surname of my ninth grade classmate, "Catto," but only if you have a lisp or some other speech impediment? Obviously, Mr. Catto is not really the big "chief." He is only the hired hand, the self-described "Ambassador At Sea," a very appropriate title for this autobiography because it accurately describes how this ambassador works very closely, hand in hand, with the wealthy people who have all the money stashed away in the offshore banks, not having much to do with or having the slightest thought or care for the common folk, the lower class poverty stricken populace of more native American genealogical extraction who will never have a chance to rise from the ranks, the bottom feeders of society, the catfish scavenging at the bottom of the stream for any leftover scrap that might be found, not that I would know anything about this, never having heard this word until recently. So the rich people of the country belong to a different world than the poor people but we always knew that. The Bible says: "The poor you have with you always." There always will be poor people who can't get out of the slums and ghettos. There always will be these Rich Bitch Republican trash (or was she a Democrat, like I would even know exactly who you are talking about) who can never get any respect even though they try so hard, not that we wanted it to be that way but it was their choice. It was not like they would ever let us tell them what to do, or rather what not to do. So typical of these Brash Trash Rich People to dump their garbage on poor people like me, as if I could afford to pick up the tab for all their libel and slander when I do not even know what they are talking about.