It's St. Joseph's Day and what that means (besides a big Italian-American parade through the Quarter last night) is Mardi Gras Indians all over town!Downtown Indians will be parading today from the Bywater (where most of the area remains unnihabited) to Hunter's Field at the edge of the Treme. Uptown Indians were going to parade today as well, but they've decided to move their parade to next week because all the Indian groups will be gaterhing Uptown tonight for a St. Joseph's Night gathering that will commemorate last year's troubled event that ended sadly when Chief of Chief's Tootie Montana died at a police department meeting to deal with the problems.
That's the real story for today... Tootie, for the first time in over 50 years, will be conspicuously and sadly missed.
Get the hell out the way... It's the Indians' Day!
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