Show WILDEST TRIBE OF INDIANS tho the rap of arlenn Ar lonn aro are great Wander cra he ant t not tho the chief of the bureau burean of ethnology in washington has sent two scouts into arizona to look over the homes of the papago indians anil and to investigate their race characteristics says hays the kew york world they lire the most vagrant of american indians with many tribal peculiarities they live in bouthern arizona often they mako foraging expeditions into mexico and in tile tho sense of settled habitation they cannot be 10 S said a i to live iv e a anywhere n y iv h T they a arc re the dot oad ade fai mo most s t n nomadic m ic 0 of f a all 1 the I 1 indian n n t tribes ibes at present the Pap agoes were once a 6 tribe of from four to seven thousand the exact number is not known they are scattered over sov so wide dc a range of territory that it is doubtful if even one of their own number could form a clear idea of how many there now are in tho the tribe the Pap agoes aro are wild in the sense that they are not cot civilized but not in the sense that they are bloodthirsty they are arc a very peaceful people and many of them assist their indian neighbors in harvest harvesting in g their grain they take their pay in supplies which they lay up for the winter season but in the summer they live chiefly on the fruit of the cactus plant and wild berries it is a wonder how they live at all some of those who lead a roving life own a few horses and cattle but the entire number of cattle owned by those who are not on reservation is only two thousand and the number of domestic fowls is one thousand tho papago indians receive no rations from the government they are actually self supporting asking nothing of the government and receiving very little there are from three hundred to civo hundred indians gathered on two reservations one near tucson gueson and one near gila bend on the southern pacific railroad these communities are arc not models of their kind in fact they are described as having each about thirty miserable squalid adobe houses with not a drop of water within many any miles ex except capt what is caught in pools during the uncertain arizona rainy season and in a short time this water becomes thick and vile because the pools are the common resort of the indians the cattle and the swine what the Pap agoes need most is irrigation to make their barren land fertile for that land now will not furnish subsistence for a coyote or a gopher |