Cowboys V Indians
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When our boys were 7 and 5, we did an extended road trip across the States and spent a lot of the time in the "four quarters" area - New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and met a lot of Native Americans as they were often rangers on the National Forest campgrounds. I still treasure the memory of my boys playing cowboys and indians with real Navajo Indians. The irony was that my blond, white, blue-eyed boys were the Indians while the Navajo kids were the cowboys.
We found it odd that having been out of Europe for nearly two years, we felt as if we were coming home when we were in the Navajo and Hopi areas and seemed to have more in common with them than most Americans of European descent. It may have been our shared interest in art and craft skills, but many Americans in the area appeared to have little interest in the indigenous culture.
The realisation that as I sit writing this, I am wearing a Suni silver sandcast belt buckle as I have every day since I bought it in New Mexico in the 1970s, may go some way to answering the question in the OP.
We found it odd that having been out of Europe for nearly two years, we felt as if we were coming home when we were in the Navajo and Hopi areas and seemed to have more in common with them than most Americans of European descent. It may have been our shared interest in art and craft skills, but many Americans in the area appeared to have little interest in the indigenous culture.
The realisation that as I sit writing this, I am wearing a Suni silver sandcast belt buckle as I have every day since I bought it in New Mexico in the 1970s, may go some way to answering the question in the OP.
didn't play cowboys 'n' injuns much as a kid but i was always more favored to being a cowboy. think it was something to do with watching lightning jack alot with my dad. we always played at robin hood, i think we must have built bout 30 tree houses in total. it was always good fun until my brother came off the rope swing at high speed, face first.
Indian -I got a wigwam for my birthday and used to make bows and arrows from garden canes.
Plus, it seemed cooler at the time..
Plus, it seemed cooler at the time..
Sub-Lieutenant Keith Lockhart, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045659/
Or
Capt Louis Renault, http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi6095897/
Or any of a thousand, mostly 1940's, B&W film characters. Never the lead but always a supporting character and never a cowboy or an Indian.
Or
Capt Louis Renault, http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi6095897/
Or any of a thousand, mostly 1940's, B&W film characters. Never the lead but always a supporting character and never a cowboy or an Indian.
We played Cowboy & Indians a lot. Usually on our real horses as we started riding before starting school. We also played modern war (if WWII would still be considered modern) and we played space explorers and Martians as well as Everglades airboat explorers, Tarzan, Safari, etc. My personal favorite was WWII.
But as for the OP's poll, I voted Other. In my mind it was Cowboy & Indian games but rather than being either of those two, I usually wanted to be the Cavalryman or the Wagonmaster.
But as for the OP's poll, I voted Other. In my mind it was Cowboy & Indian games but rather than being either of those two, I usually wanted to be the Cavalryman or the Wagonmaster.
I wanted to be D-Day Dawson OR Union Jack Jackson.
Followed a few years later by The Fonze!
da C.
Followed a few years later by The Fonze!
da C.
My gran and her sister went to America on holiday. They brought back an Indian Chief's feathered head dress and a tomahawk for my big brother - the rest of us had to be the cowboys.
But it was Kwai Chang Kane - from the Kung Fu TV series in the 70's - that I wanted to be, beating up the bad cowboys.
Liam
But it was Kwai Chang Kane - from the Kung Fu TV series in the 70's - that I wanted to be, beating up the bad cowboys.
Liam
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