When I was a boy growing up in a very small town in Oklahoma in the early 1960s, I sometimes saw Indian kids around town wearing mohawk haircuts. As a devotee of Western movies and TV shows, I begged my parents to let me wear my hair that way. They denied my request, probably because of their own sense of decorum, but it was likely wise; I’ve no idea how a white kid wearing an Indian haircut would have been received by our Indian neighbors in those days. [caption id="attachment_32853" al


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