When I was kid there was a Mohawk family that lived in my town. The husband worked high steel in Manhattan. I once asked him how he did it, and what there was about Indians that let them work high steel like that.

He laughed and said, "Man, we're just as scared up there as you'd be."

So I asked them why they did it. He laughed again and said, "Where else is an Indian gonna get a job that pays that well?"

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