Indian Firefight

USA Today and CNN report that authorities give a shit about saving ancient Indian artifacts and historic sites, in danger from a Colorado forest fire in Mesa Verde National Park: "The fire poses special challenges for firefighters and archaeologists, who are working side by side to protect mounds of rocks and rubble -- artifacts from ancestral Pueblo Indians" (USA Today, Wednesday July 26, 2000)

Winona LaDuke, in "All Our Relations" reports that authorities don't give a shit about living Indians: "In 1951, the Atomic Energy Commission set up the Nevada Test Site within Western Shoshone territory as a proving grounds for nuclear weapons."

"Sometimes, you don't even know it's there until they point it out to us," said firefighter Wayne Kills Enemy, 32, of Rosebud, S.D. "I saw a foundation of a dwelling, a two- to three-room dwelling, that at first just looked like a pile of rocks. But then I saw the outline of the rooms."