This morning as I finished writing my column I searched the web for the perfect picture to compliment the story. What I ended up finding was a walk down memory lane. I hit on an image that solidified the times in the mid 70's and I was thrust into vivid and colorful walk down memory lane into out Nations past. Here's a video that should take many of you back to a day when Fred Bear was still alive, compound bows were just being tinkered with, and Coke-a-cola was trying to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. Yo-yo's were the toy to own, bell bottoms were still hip, station waggons were considered a family car, and the nation was still reeling from the Vietnam conflict and somthing later called Watergate. I do think you older guys will appreciate the video I found. Remember when-  video   CK

A blast from the past.    Thanks  It still hits home and has meaning today.
ChuckC

CK,

Thanks for the memory. They could play it today and it would still have meaning. Iron Eyes was a great image of his people.

I remember that one and I think they made a couple more similar commercials about pollution with him.

Dennis

He would be sorely dissapointed at his own people if he walked through any reservation these days. I've never seen more polluted places other than inner city ghettos. You don't have to have a lot of money to have pride and respect.

A great message that generally falls on deaf ears. People are pigs by nature.

Mickey:
Only one problem with Iron eyes cody, He was not an Indian, He was Italian  Born Apr 3 rd 1904 died Jan 4,1999 He was born in Gueydan Louisana His real name was Espera De Corti the son of a Sicilian immigrant
Bob

He was adopted by the Mohawk nation.

i must say that commercial really brings back some memories. i remember as a young boy really being captured by the tear on his face and feeling his pain.      

it's hard to believe that before white man the native American's lived here and produced basically zero trash living off the land.  times have really changed! sometimes i catch myself drifting off and wishing i had been around then instead of now.

Curtis.. You do seem to have a way of "JOLTING" the complacency in all of us. WELL DONE Bud        

I Need these reminders and MEMORIES, more now than then.

I remember that one. Thanks for bringing it back up.It still has a lot of impact.

Yea, jolting, no doubt! I remember well the feelings it stirred back then. I think I was about 8 years old when I first saw the commercial. It always made me so sad. I believe that was the intended purpose.


Vance, you have mail sir! CK

Paleface.  I suspect wholeheartedly that they did indeed create waste and trash, especially in the larger settlements, however, theirs was not the type that stays around for centuries, except for the lithic type.    I also suspect highly that if they had plastic bottles and glass bottles and cigarettes with filters, the landscape would have looked like it does earlier. \\\\\\

One person throwing out some trash is nearly invisible.  Thousands, or millions doing so and it is no longer invisible...but...then it becomes an accepted and expected part of the landscape.  

How many people do you see and hear today that bitch like heck about the litter....but do nothing about it.   it is always "someone else's" responsibility or fault.

It doesn't end at litter.   We are...what we are.
ChuckC

I remember that well.

I'm on dialup. It wouldn't play for me.

I always carry a small plastic grocery sack with me when I go hunting. As I leave the woods each day I fill the sack up with throw-away garbage that has been left behind by others. I have been doing this for several years. I never run out of sacks and regretfully I never run out of empty cans, bottles,and other assorted trash either.
                                    Jim

Where did you find that!?  Yeah, I remember it too.  And for being Italian, he made a pretty good Indian.

At a film festival where I was playing once I had the opportunity to sit down with Iron eyes and I sang a song I wrote about Geronimo for him. He told me that he portrayed Geronimo three times in different movies.

I hate it when Curtis gets all emotional

Curtis,
     Very timely, our local archery club had one of our highway clean up days today, we have a two mile section in The Big Thompson Canyon.
     "Old Guys" I resemble that remark I remember the add well. Thanks for the memories.

                      Tater

Curtis, Thanks for the Vidio.  I remember that one. Brings back good times. Bob, I'm no Indian, but I love to shoot bows and arrows.......

Mark