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The Day of The Dead Parade and Feast

For those of you that don't understand what happened on the previous page, Ed just hit you with a tomato. Your next question is probably why? I'll let Marilyn explain.

"We don't celebrate like you. We (Indians) have a lot of anger."

And so you throw tomatoes?

"Tomatoes look like blood but they don't hurt."

And like Dave the Cook says " Could be worst, baseball bats, bicycle chains, tire iron."

So what is this Day of The Dead about?

"Death like the white man wasn't happy in his own land, He didn't think his kingdom was big enough, he wanted more. One night when the good spirit was asleep Death attacked the world, he killed allot of people and he took the chief's prettiest daughter as his bride. She pretended to be a good wife, but one day she secretly fed him a pumpkin seed. The pumpkin grew inside Death. Finally he exploded and a million pumpkin seeds covered the Earth. A lot of people died, but a good thing came out of it too."

What was that?

"Pumpkins, it's the same with white people, They cleared the forest, they dug up the land and they gave us the flu, but they also brought power tools and penicillin and Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream."

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