WyoFile: A Legacy of Prejudice: Lawsuits, Failed Pacts Tell Ugly Story.
”Whites here may have legitimate concerns about the quasi-independent state on their borders, such as issues relating to law-enforcement jurisdiction or water rights. But that doesn’t explain the bigotry that often seems a holdover from another time: the high-school sports fans mocking Indian players as ‘prairie niggers,’ for example, or the white civic leader, subsequently elected to the county commission, declaring in a private meeting, ‘I hate goddamn Indians,’ to cite examples from the voting rights trial.” Many think the ‘wild West’ is a part of the past. Live out here for a while, you’ll realize it’s alive and well — and not the fantasy perpetrated on us kids through “Bonanza” and “Gunsmoke.”
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