It was the time of the Sun Dance and the Big Tractor Pull

It was the time of the Sun Dance and the Big Tractor Pull. – Mary Margaret Road-Grader, by Howard Waldrop is online at Strange Horizons (and has been for years?). Go read it. I had a collection of Waldrop’s stories once, which I must have loaned to someone — you know, one of those You must read this! loans, except the other guy forgets all about it, and you forget who that other guy was — and I regret it to this day. Post-Apocalyptic survivalism with Communist Disney animatronic robots, telekinetic Sumo wrestlers, reincarnated Pharohs, Israelis traveling in time to enact Elders of Zion conspiracies, be-bop, dinosaurs, movie monsters and nostalgia – fittingly that I remembered Waldrop because he’s just reviewed King Kong for the Locus site).
In this story (like in his cool but unfocused novel Them Bones), Waldrop writes Indians. Like in Little Big Man, Waldrop’s Indians combine movie Western noble savageness with an endearing down-to-earthness. I love them.