Trying To Walk In Beauty

Talk about raising the roof! Well, as a child, I’ve seen this happen first hand. While standing outside our hogan one afternoon with other family members after running out of our hogan because we heard an aircraft in the sky. We looked up towards the mountain that we lived up against and we saw a helicopter flying right towards us. It was flying so low that as it flew right over our heads, it lifted the roof of my uncle’s house that sat near our hogan. Rather than placing the roof back right on top of the house, the air current from helicopter lifted the roof and and carried it a few inches away from the house then dropped it, thus destroying my uncle’s house. I don’t remember my uncle’s house ever getting fixed or rebuilt. And after a few days, the house was taken down. So because of a lowing flying helicopter, my uncle and his family ended up moving in with us into our already cramped one-roomed hogan.