From: spottedpony@dontemailme.com   
      
   In article , gregerh@spamblock.net   
   says...   
      
   >It could also be a just a language quirk. Here in Northern Norway we   
   >often say "eyes" when meaning the entire face. People from the   
   >southern parts just look dumbfounded when we do that..   
      
   The term "White Eyes" is a specific reference   
   to eye color. There is also the broader "skin color"   
   term applied to races; white men, red men, black   
   men, yellow men. Those are terms commonly used anglos   
   as far as I know.   
      
   I'm not going to quote the entire reference I found   
   to White Eyes, but my source is RUIDOSO COUNTRY, by Frank   
   Mangan and the specific chapter in that book titled   
   "The Mescalero Apaches." In this chapter Mangan is   
   telling how the present-day Mescalero Reservation   
   came to be home to other Apache tribes who share the   
   reservation with the Mescaleros. He is quoting from   
   historian Eve Ball, who interviewed many of the   
   remaining warriors in the early part of the 20th   
   century who were then still living on the nearby   
   Mescalero Apache Reservation.   
      
   Asa Daklugie (the name he took at the Carlisle School)   
   was a nephew of Chief Geronimo. During his interview   
   he said to Ball,   
      
   "My father was a good man; he killed lots of White Eyes."   
      
   Daklugie and another, a Lipan Apache named Philemon Vanego,   
   both told Ball, "That what impressed them most about white   
   people (note the difference) was the whites of their eyes.   
   We don't have that," Vanego said.   
   "Our eyes are coffee-colored where yours   
   are white. That is how you got your name White Eyes."   
      
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