Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

The term 'invasion day' and the cartoon were new to me.

Reminded me of the Soprano's episode about Columbus Day and native American protests, this exchange in particular referencing the purchase of Manhattan island for chump beads.

https://subslikescript.com/series/The_Sopranos-141842/season-4/episode-3-Christopher

Chief, I'd like to introduce you to my
friends, Silvio Dante, Tony Soprano.

The guy I was telling you about.

Chief Doug Smith.

Tribal chairman of the Mohonk Indians
and CEO of Mohonk Enterprises.

- An honor.
- Thanks for coming all the way here.

I had business in Manhattan anyway.

Not again.


Would you bring the gentleman
a Ketel One up, please?

So, chief, he told you about the shit
going down in Newark?

Small element, ruins it for the rest of us.

I've got a quarter-billion-dollar casino
and a huge Italian-American customer base.

Providence, East Boston.
Good people.

Our part of the world.
We're closer than Atlantic City.

This is a brand-new facility,
state of the art.

This fucking protest, they're burning
Columbus in effigy down there.

- They're gonna lay down in the parade.
- That's not gonna happen.

People like Redclay, they're out of touch.
They're in their ivory towers.

They don't understand the economic
opportunity that funds the community.

You should see the Olympic-size
swimming pool...

...this man put in the Deerpark
Reservation Rec Center.

Well, we all got kids.

We don't want to see
our heritage attacked, that's all.

Salute.

Well, no offense, chief, but
you don't look much like an Indian.

Frankly, I passed most
of my life as white...

...until I had an awakening
and discovered my Mohonk blood.

My grandmother on my father's side,
her mother was a quarter Mohonk.

This happened when the casino bill
got passed, right?

- Better late than never.
- "Mohonk" if you love Columbus.