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Show - tt An Insight Into The Human Body irTTtttt jf fV M : tftfIF - jft($ $'& f . fiJtJ' p? & '"f rV f. Neat As West Pointers i v r:TrrrTTj7r rrf . . t a jt 4 Studying The Body Is Easy . . with a giant painting like this. A whole new world is opened to the Navajo students who never dreamed of such information as they are taught at the school. . $ Learning Homemaking Navajos Show Much wiM O " , L I, if Jt tlt 4 f t y: & ? ' 3 rf? 1 'W At the school they have .. f jt ;vj , 1 ' ii " , 1 ? - V &aLuii. Navajo Lass Learns Fast technique of sewing her own clothes. ' They make practically all of their own clothes and at their style shows exhibit classy outfits. , ;.'the 1 1 , Stab. Navajo Boys Hang Up Clothes individual closets. ...toin theirtheir clothes and is keep One of their first lessons quarters clean at all times. Keeping Old Art prov- and alert students. They have faced the ordinary tribulations of all young people, the little fights, troubles with lessons; and besides these a multitude more that comes from living hundreds of miles from home, in a strange land and in a different culture, and with strange peo' ple. . Though the job of adjusting to the sharply different life, is tackled by vociferously each of the students not a single one of them has asked to be sent back to the reservation for the ominous plight of their , ;. i Bfeayai l - - few, ed courageous, intelligent r v v 'v school. r f --X te4ftwX!! Continued from Preceding Page students are the oldest, and their cullicumn centers' on a trade which will qualify them to find a job off the reservaton when they become 18, and must leave '1 , r;; Courage At School - Navajo Rug Making As A Hobby . KEEP COOOL at the COME IN OVER l&, AND LET'S GET, ACQUAINTED A COLD GLASS OF BEER . . this' young lady is perpetuating the rug making art passed down from her forefathers as a hobby only. Though it' is one of the principal activities of the Navajos, it earns the makers only a few cents an hour. . race was felt by them, no matter how young. When the Indian Services sent a call for 500 students to attend the Indian school in 1JH9 out on the reservation, the answer was overwhelming. Indian service with employes were Swamped double that number of applications before they could stop the rush for the education bonanza. They trooped into the trading posts on the reservation vfrorn the depths, of their 15.000,000-acrskyline country. Usually they came by foot, often on burrow or wagon, but practically never by automobile. , Since Colonel Kit Carson rounded up all but 9 few of the Navajos in 1864 for horse and cattle stealing raids on the white wagon trains and settle e OR O FRIENDLY WE ALSO A GAME OF POOL HAVE A LINE OF Fishing Tackle -- 'Ammunition - Guns ! BILLIARDS OR THE I -- AT YOUR SERVICE! Lubrication Wash and Wax Battery Service Brunswick Tires Gates, DuPont Products YOUR FAVORITE BEER Draught Or Bottle I ments, they have thirsted for education almost as much as they have for water on their arid desert land. Wise old Indian chiefs saw to it that the treaty between the Navajo tribes and the U. S. government, drawn up in I860, provided for a school teacher for every 30 Indian youngsters. The agreement was never kept and today officials of the Indian service estimate that of the 24,000 Navajo children of school age, there are no educational facilities for 15,000 of them. To add ' to the woes of the tribal council and the governNavament, thp children-lovinjos are Tapidly increasing in population. In 1868 their population was (Continued on Following Page)' frPOOLHALl n,. i mm Hansens W Service Cy Hansen Lessee 362 SOUTH MAIN" Phone 535 : |