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Tomorrow night is graduation, and I will watch and cheer and cry as these lovely young people that I have taught for the last six years leave our school and head out into the world.
Every year, I write each one of them a personal letter and give it to them at Senior Chapel, along with an arrowhead from my collection.
This year, I got a gift back.  It's an official Monty Python "Ministry of Silly Walks" wristwatch!!!

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Do my kids know me or what??

Oh wow, each one gets an arrowhead form your collection?!? 
That alone is worth more than anything else you could give them. Every time I found one as a kid, I felt like I was shaking hands with history.  Be that as it may, the wristwatch is pretty cool too!  Graduation for me was 31 years ago, and I look back and remember it as plain as day, although many days have passed since then..   :bluesad:

Umaril - I have over 8500 arrowheads in my personal finds collection, plus hundreds of others that I buy, sell, and trade.
I enjoy being generous with them!

That many???

Man, you really know where to look! And being stuff of that nature is hard to find (and historically priceless as well) your generosity is unmatched, I'd say.   :cheers:

A little history here:
When I lived in Asbury, N.J. ( a town during N.J.'s colonial days) the fields around the Muscenetcong river and the banks of the river itself yielded many things from Indian artifacts to old coins.  We even had remains of old Algonquin longhouses (the Lenape were Algonquin-speaking peoples.) They allegedly left Jersey in 1722 (their last lands being those along the Raritan river) and no joke, are now the Delawares of Texas!

If their totem animal is the turtle out in Texas, that would be them, as it was the Lenape totem animal as well. 

BTW: "Muscenetcong" means "Netcong's river" after the Lenni Lenape chief of the same name.  Other roads named after famous Lenape chiefs in NJ are Minneakoning road, and Takamergen(sp?) roads, both in Flemington, N.J. if I recall right.

I live in an area that was, in historic times, home to the Wichitas and Caddo - kind of on the fringe of each one's territory.  The local branch of the Wichitas were called the Tawakoni.  I got interested in picking up arrowheads when I was quite young and enjoy it a great deal.

If you ever want to acquire some points for any reason, give me a shout out!  I can make you an excellent deal on some nice pieces.

It must feel really good to get something like that from your kids Indy, wish I had a teacher like you when I was in school!

I think my grandpa used to find some arrowheads on their farm here in Minnesota, but then one day when he wasn't home some guy came around who was interested in those things, and my grandpa's dad gave the whole lot of them to him.  My gramps was not pleased.

He GAVE them away? s**t, I wouldn't be pleased either!

Oh yeah, the Wichita and the Caddo. Very famous names. It's rumored that the word "Wichita" is a derivative of 'Washeeta" which was a river where a famous massacre of Oglala Sioux took place at the hands of the U.S. Army.

Not sure of which one took place first, but rumor had it that Washeeta river was payback for Crazy Horse's role in the Feterman massacre or vice versa.  

In any case, after Washeeta river, Red Cloud warned Custer to "stay away from the greasy grass" if he wanted to live.  That was the warning to stay away from Sioux territory in the future. And as we know, Custer apparently didn't listen.

Edited because the spell checker wouldn't allow the original spelling of the river name..

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