I have a list -
Mar. 22nd, 2006 07:03 amAnd it's a short one, but plenty of work is being done to make sure it grows.
It's the list of states I won't visit, or have any business dealings with. You ship from a location there? Nope. You're incorporated there? Ditto.
Now, come on. You can figure out why, right?
It's tender little comfort, but I takes 'em where I can get 'em.
But I had added South Dakota to that list - not that I had any plans, but for a while there, MBNA was doing their billing out of there. I think they moved it to Maryland.
I'd visit South Dakota today - if I got to meet this woman.
*looks further* Hmm? Wow. One good link has others - Using websites and shoe leather, Tiller set out to publish the most comprehensive list of Indian tribes, nations, villages, pueblos, and rancherias ever put into one book. In the foreword Tiller wrote, “In addition to the research and inquiries conducted from our offices, we also dispatched a small army of field researchers made up almost exclusively of my sisters and nieces to visit more than 220 reservations and Indian communities in the ‘Lower 48’ states. From treaty fishing grounds at the very mouth of the Klamath River in Oregon to the bottom of the Grand Canyon; from the Las Vegas-style Indian casinos of San Diego County to the tribal bison herds on the high plains of Montana and the Dakotas; and from the Florida Everglades to the island chain of the Penobscot River in Maine, we ‘kicked the tires’ of Indian country USA for this 2005 edition of Tiller’s Guide.”
I was born and raised right next to the Soboba Indian Reservation in Riverside County - when I say white people scare me, there's more than one reason.
*sighs* It also carries the same kind of "what are YOU doing here" feeling - and really, if I'm the only cracker in the box that day, who can blame them?
I just like the company, guys. I just prefer the company.
EDIT: Here's where you can get a copy. Wow. $200 a copy, and it is huge.
It's the list of states I won't visit, or have any business dealings with. You ship from a location there? Nope. You're incorporated there? Ditto.
Now, come on. You can figure out why, right?
It's tender little comfort, but I takes 'em where I can get 'em.
But I had added South Dakota to that list - not that I had any plans, but for a while there, MBNA was doing their billing out of there. I think they moved it to Maryland.
I'd visit South Dakota today - if I got to meet this woman.
*looks further* Hmm? Wow. One good link has others - Using websites and shoe leather, Tiller set out to publish the most comprehensive list of Indian tribes, nations, villages, pueblos, and rancherias ever put into one book. In the foreword Tiller wrote, “In addition to the research and inquiries conducted from our offices, we also dispatched a small army of field researchers made up almost exclusively of my sisters and nieces to visit more than 220 reservations and Indian communities in the ‘Lower 48’ states. From treaty fishing grounds at the very mouth of the Klamath River in Oregon to the bottom of the Grand Canyon; from the Las Vegas-style Indian casinos of San Diego County to the tribal bison herds on the high plains of Montana and the Dakotas; and from the Florida Everglades to the island chain of the Penobscot River in Maine, we ‘kicked the tires’ of Indian country USA for this 2005 edition of Tiller’s Guide.”
I was born and raised right next to the Soboba Indian Reservation in Riverside County - when I say white people scare me, there's more than one reason.
*sighs* It also carries the same kind of "what are YOU doing here" feeling - and really, if I'm the only cracker in the box that day, who can blame them?
I just like the company, guys. I just prefer the company.
EDIT: Here's where you can get a copy. Wow. $200 a copy, and it is huge.