Indian Country: Why Did the Chicken Cross the Rez Road?

Through this Irishman's eyes, humor permeates Indian Country. It is often self-deprecating and rarely caustic. The sense of humor I hear and see in Indian Country has always delighted me. Lots of good hearty laughs.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. ~Bill Cosby

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. ~Sid Caesar

Submitted by "Butterfly".

WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?

GRASSROOT INDIAN:

If the chickens need to get across the road, let 'em cross the road!

COLONIZED INDIAN:

Chickens should never cross the roads that white men built before the great white father crosses it first; if the white father crosses it, it is good. We must then follow.

AMERICANIZED INDIAN:

We must have roads. We must cross the roads that the white man built for us. We have to be thankful to the white man for this. I don't know why you Indians are always complaining. You embarrass us. Chickens are good for us.

REPUBLICAN INDIAN:

It's true that white man built those roads for us. We are merely chickens. We will always be chickens until we learn to build those roads ourselves for profit.

DEMOCRATIC INDIAN:

The chicken crossed the road because he didn't have enough funding.

TRADITIONAL INDIAN:

Those chickens weren't traditional because they were supposed to be on "the road"- not crossing it.

INDIAN GRANDMA:

Oh, poor thing! I hope he had enough to eat.

INDIAN GRANDPA:

I think he was runnin' away from boarding school.

INDIAN DOG:

Come on! Let's get them chickens!

URBAN INDIAN:

That chicken crossed the road 'cause it was from the city, and is entitled to the same road access as Rez chickens.

NEW AGE INDIAN:

It was basically because of a Jungian dream therapy, drumming, Sweat lodges, my shaman, and long walks on the beach, near my beach house.

POW WOW INDIAN:

That chicken must have been heading to a 49!

EDUCATED INDIAN:

I think it has to do with Einstein's theory, which basically posts: "Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath the chicken?"

REZ INDIAN:

That chicken owns all the roads on this Rez and can cross any of them anytime he feels like it.

IHS INDIAN:

I really don't care why he crossed that road. Without prior authorization, we still aren't paying for his hospital bills.

BIA INDIAN:

They crossed it because of CFR 49, Section 11299, gives them the authority to do so, under Department of Interior regulations, in the Executive Branch. They wrote a grant and we funded them. We are very proud of them.

KFC INDIAN:

I'll take a leg, a thigh, with corn and potatoes. Extra Crispy please.

TRIBAL COUNCIL INDIAN:

The chicken crossed the road before we did?? Fire his family! They'll all pay for this!