Regarding your article on the economic development plans of the Hualapai Tribe (HCN, 2/20/06: Tribe brings on the tourists): Let me get this straight. You bring a bunch of porcine asses out from Las Vegas in air-conditioned, global-warming Hummer-Dummers to have lunch at a place called “Guano Point,” and then charge them $25 to use a giant toilet seat cantilevered out over your own tribal land so they can defecate all over it with helicopters and jet boats and tramways and run around with cartoon Indians and cowboys roping straw-bale cows.

Maybe there’s some employment here, but how is this supposed to overcome poverty of spirit, addiction, and hopelessness?

David Kozlowski
Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Hualapai horror

by David Kozlowski, High Country News
March 20, 2006

<h1>Hualapai horror</h1> <p class="byline">by David Kozlowski, High Country News <br />March 20, 2006</p> <p>Regarding your article on the economic development<br /> plans of the Hualapai Tribe (HCN, 2/20/06: Tribe brings on the<br /> tourists): Let me get this straight. You bring a bunch of porcine<br /> asses out from Las Vegas in air-conditioned, global-warming<br /> Hummer-Dummers to have lunch at a place called “Guano Point,” and<br /> then charge them $25 to use a giant toilet seat cantilevered out<br /> over your own tribal land so they can defecate all over it with<br /> helicopters and jet boats and tramways and run around with cartoon<br /> Indians and cowboys roping straw-bale cows. </p> <p> Maybe<br /> there’s some employment here, but how is this supposed to<br /> overcome poverty of spirit, addiction, and hopelessness? </p> <p><b>David Kozlowski</b><br /> Santa Fe, New Mexico</p> <div class="wp-block-group hcn-print-edition-box"> <p>This article appeared in the <a href="/?p=189060">print edition of the magazine</a> with the headline <span class="hcn-magtitle">Hualapai horror</span>.</p> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-318/hualapai-horror/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=111993&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-318/hualapai-horror/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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