The temperature has risen a little over the past few days but a biting wind keeps springing up. This necessitated my buying some ear-muffs (whisper it- of beaver, farmed I'm hoping).
We've really immersed ourselves in the galleries and museums and seen some gorgeous art, ceramics, jewellery etc.
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| cute bunnies |
The state-run museums are excellent with state-of-the-art displays. We now know quite a bit about the history of New Mexico and I'm sorry that we've not had time to travel out to the pueblos to see the ancient adobe cave-dwellings and "sky-scrapers".
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| Apache sun dancer |
We walked 2 miles out of town to a museum complex and so feel quite justified in eating the fresh- baked cookies which the hotel always puts out at 4pm.
There are the usual issues over the treatment of the Native Americans (whom I know notice are being referred to -and calling themselves-Indians again). Some local tribes are very wealthy owning casinos, golf courses etc and taking advantage of being sovereign tribal states so they don't have to follow Federal tax and gambling laws. Good on them I say. A story in the NY Times today said that the big tobacco corps are annoyed at Indian tribes near the city processing tobacco and selling cheap, tax-free ciggies on their lands. A chief said "We tried poverty for 200 years so we thought we try prosperity"!
Let's hear it for the Indians all the way! I was surprised but delighted to hear that they are striking back.Good on 'em!
ReplyDeleteLoved the Apache sundancer.