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Politics : Sioux Nation
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To: elpolvo who wrote (313095)12/20/2018 5:20:39 PM
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have you lived next door in texas all your life?
Not Yet !

My other summer trip was to the Trans-Pecos towns of Texas. Fort Bliss and White Sands were my Dad's bread & butter, but each summer journeyed to Fort Stockton, and Presidio, and Iraan. His Texas territory didn't extend to Alpine or Odessa, but we hit every town west of there. My Dad's hobby was finding cars that got disabled or minor wrecks in these places. He would buy them, then the next month or so we would drive back with a trailer and haul them to Juarez to be fixed.

We had a native American family living next to us. Our family had a rural cotton patch next to the Rio Grande right by the Ysleta and Socorro towns. This family (3 sons and about 5 daughters) built their own house. While all our houses were adobe, this one was made with cardboard soaked in the sticky mud and pressed onto existing layers of wall. Unlike our houses it didn't have a plaster layer and so required maintenance every year. They were from the Tiwa tribe in New Mexico, and although there was a community in the nearby mailstop of Tigua, that community had come to Texas during the pueblo revolt of 1680 and this family had come from New Mexico the previous generation.

We somehow got a small herd of dairy goats. We milked them for awhile, but they ate all my Mother's flowers and were otherwise more annoying than useful. We gave the herd to this family since they had a small herd of wooly goats, and in return they cooked a kid each autumn in a buried mud-pit filled with charcoal and they gave us several pounds of cabrito barbacoa It was sooooo good! I can rarely find that dish in Central Texas.
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