I was prepared for the fact that the Indians do things differently from AE cultures because I had spent part of my childhood on the Upper Rio Grande River with the Pueblo Indians as friends Such differences were taken for granted. But this public, everything at once, mélange way of conducting business made an impression on me. There was no escaping it, here was another world, but in this instance, although both Spanish and Anglos had their roots firmly planted in European soil, each handled time in radically different ways.