OBSERVATION

by Virginia

OKAY SO I CAN'T QUIT !

In my editorial in # 55-“Telling It Like It Is," I mentioned that I had seriously considered rounding out my 10th year of TVia and then discontinuing it. While by no means everyone responded to this, maybe most of you don't care, I don't know, but a lot of you did, and I am most appreciative of the votes of confidence and the words of thanks and encouragement that I received from a number of you. I haven't time to reply to each of you so you'll have to take this as a collective thanks.

So I guess I have created something that must go on. Certainly there are plenty of presently unknown TVs to be found and helped. All I wish is that more of you would pick up a little bit of this load even to the extent of buying and mailing out the "Intro- duction to TVism" or of donating the Wives book to your local library. I've made it easy enough for you to do so. I see that Chevalier must remain in action to continue to provide a center and a source of help, understanding and friendship but I also see that in addition to the conspicuous few who develop projects, ar- range programs for me, place ads, act as councillors and the like, there are a great many free loading Indians on this reservation. I don't mean free loading financially, I mean those who are willing to accept but not to give, who exert no initiative, improvise no methods and do little to help those who are still unfound or are still where you were a few months or years ago.

O. K. I'll keep on doing my part, it will have to be streamlined as outlined in that editorial but I'll stick with it. But how about some more chiefs coming out of this tribe of Indians to help with the load?

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VIRGINIA