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Native Humor
I consider these jokes culturist, not racist.
Humor is about communicating insight.
And while everyone’s wonderful, no one’s perfect.
Please enjoy these jokes - it's good to laugh at ourselves and each other. In most cases, no source is given for these jokes, because the authors are unknown - this material is largely based on email, newsgroup, or web postings of presumably anonymous and/or public domain material. Efforts to identify the original author and/or copyright holder have been unsuccessful.
A road that marks the boundary lines between the reservation and the city. On one side of the road are the res dogs, and they just kind of lie around being cool. On the city side are the city dogs, and they always chase cars as they go down the road, barking, "Bow-wow, Bow-wow." One day the city dogs ask the res dogs, "How come you never chase cars with us?" The res dogs say, "What's the point? It's just a waste of time. The cars don't do anything when you chase them." The city dogs tell the res dogs that they think its just a lot of fun, so finally the res dogs agree to try it just once. The next car comes down the road, and the dogs from both sides chase the car. The city dogs bark, "Bow-wow, Bow-wow" and the res dogs chase too, but they bark, "Bow-wow, Bow-wow, Bow-wow, Bow-wow eeeewwwwwwwwww."
A Lakota who had spent his whole life in the desert, visited a friend who had moved to town. He'd never seen a train or train tracks. As he was standing in the middle of the railroad tracks, he heard a whistle -- Whooee da Whoee! -- but he didn't know what it was.
WHAM! He's hit by the train and tossed to the side of the tracks. It was a glancing blow, and he survived with a few broken bones and some bruises. After weeks in the hospital recovering, he was finally visiting his friend in town. While in the kitchen, he suddenly heard the teapot whistling. He grabbed a baseball bat from a nearby closet and bashed the teapot into an unrecognizable lump of metal. His friend, hearing the noise, rushed into the kitchen and asked, "Why'd you bust up my teapot?" The desert man replied, "You gotta kill these things when they're small."
An old Indian owned a handsome red horse that he kept in a pasture next to the highway. One day a white man was driving by and noticed the horse. He pulled into the driveway and said, "Who owns that horse grazing along the side the highway?"
The elder said, "Me."
"I'll give you $500 right now for him!" said the white man.
"No, he is not for sale... He don't look so good," stated the Indian.
"What do you mean he don't look so good? He looks fine to me.
Tell you what, I'll give you $750 for him right now, Indian!"
"No," said the old fella, "He don't look so good."
"$1000 then, take it or leave it, old timer!" the white man huffed.
"OK, but I tell you, he don't look so good!" replied the old man as he made the deal.
A few days later that white guy came back to the old man's house. He got out of the truck, his head was all bandaged up. He grabbed his crutches and hopped up to the ol' guy's porch.
"WHAT THE H***'S WRONG WITH YOU, INDIAN? YOU SOLD ME A BLIND HORSE!" shouted the white man.
"I told you he don't look so good!"
The chief lived on a res where there were no paved roads, no electricity, and no indoor plumbing. He scrimped and saved to send his son to college. His son did well, working hard for four years and graduating with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. Arriving home after graduation, he was treated to a welcoming party, complete with refreshments.
Shortly after he retired to sleep, the son was awakened by a call of nature. He got up and walked down the road to the outhouse, only to stumble and fall because of the lack of lights.
The next day, he decided to put his education to work. He sat down, did the calculations, and prepared construction drawings for a lighting system for the outhouse, complete with lights for the path leading to it. It was constructed and was an immediate success.
This chief's son will go down in history as the first Indian to wire a head for a reservation.