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Show mvivuiAiyiviii) TOION AT h w Youth Learn White Man's Ways In Brigham Javajo 'hoot; uv., uiau, INTERMOUNTAIN' rea WES resit or 5 lor & innti: since vailal ho est i :er are a ispet; i hundred moons have4. their own, a a chair and white invaders of a desk. Not locker, far is a launaway away their t stowed where they have dry room arns and accepted the and ironing facilities. rather washing neighbors ni as And near at hand is a modern enemies. shower and wash room where Indian tribes they have all the water BVof the they me a long way while need to take a shower any time retarded by been feel have like It. they oouple Ming id VARIED TRAINING and oi social and economic On the reservation, The people of the water and of sometimes has to be hauled ed States in general Kder county in particular, miles, and there certainly isnt an as-- : enough for a bath every day. offering the Navajos Their education hand in their quite revo-tstarts, not (join. sps 4 n 0 B: o Visij aty ! t; refai the govo: , art o sintl their standard of with a first grade primer, but with lectures and demonstrato that of other Ameritions on the proper way to hold Indian a knife and fork; how to wash the Intermountain Brigham City, last school the. feet properly; how to make 1300 healthy ' Indian a bed; how to cross a street in from the Navajo Brigham City without being run gsters New over; how to flush a toilet; how in Arizona, nation and Utah, ree- to buy an, ice cream cone; and ico, Colorado d basic education desigrted the hundreds of other things, live in ' the ideas and habits modern civilirain them to zation has invented to confound society. k first class arrived in Jan-r- , those not acquainted with them. i960, 500 strong. The first After a period of adjusting to vear of school started with white mens type of living, the At the youngsters are presented with Septembers class. the school year most of their first text books funny 1,300 students returned to 'books and picture magazines reservation for the summer, and coloring books. ben the students first Most of them knew not only a few of them word of English when they arwho rived, consequently speak English, those they are lived near a trading post, unable to 9tart in the first grade rho have been lucky enough as do- public school youngsters. ftend a year or two of At the school they have provml on the reservation, ed courageous, Intelligent and s the reservation the young-- i alert students. They have faced in hogans the ordinary tribulations of all usually live 20 feet in circumference, young people, the little fights, with families that often troubles with lessons; and beiber 10 or 12. sides these, a multitude more kids eyes flash when that comes from living hunwalk into their new homes. dreds of miles from home, in a of them have a bed of strange land and in a different raise -- alwj o do sltor 5ima:i and 0 to lefti. nami g son sties ipossib ire, inters oe tak md w! re . ig iwoy Se igh ; 3 oth- - IINGS TO IN SEE BOX ... ELDER Children s Playground, or upper park, in Brigham City, is located between Second and Third east streets on Forrest street (two The m Jabe Duboise Expertly Irons His Shirt as Frank Nez gazes on. In the background Henry Yassie is adding final touches to a little ironing of his own. This scene was typical of those visitors saw at the schools open house at the end of the school year. ar-he- east from the court house) and is a completely-equippe- d children's playground. The city's summer recreation program furnishes free supervision at this playground during the summer months on week-day- s. Children will enjoy playing at this fine little pirk. Visitors are invited to make use of it. . . . ments, they have thirsted for lem, the Intermountain Indian education almost as much as school was created as a part o have for water on their a new program for Indians. the of Though job adjusting they to the sharply different life, arid desert land. Originally the school was tackled vociferously by Wise old Indian chiefs saw Bushnell General hospital, built ; each of the students not a sin- to it that the treaty between the during the war to care for the y gle one of them asked to be Navajo tribes and the U. S. war wounded. Until 1946 thou sent back to the reservation government, drawn up in 1869, sands of American soldiers suf for the ominous plight of their war disabilities were provided for a school teacher for race was felt by them, no mat- every 30 Indian youngsters. The feringtreated there. ter how young. agreement was never kept and In 1946 the hospital was offi- ' of the Indian When the Indian Services sent today officials closed. Patients were ' cially a call for 500 students to attend service estimate that of the moved to hospitals located near ; the Indian school, out on the 24,000 Navajo children of school metropolitan centers. All of the reservation, the answer was age, there are no educational equipment, to the last Chair, overwhelming. Indian service facilities for 15,000 of them. was moved out, and the buildemployes were swamped with , To add to the woes of the ings were boarded up. " double that number of applica- tribal council and the governMillions of dollars worth of children-lovinNavathe the could before tions ment, stop they buildings were laying idle. In good rush for the education bonanza. jos are rapidly increasing It was a natural for the Nava They trooped into the trading population. jos. They had no school buildIn 1868 their population was ings on the reservation, and &s posts on the reservation from estimated at 7,300. In 1910 it is often the condition, no place the depths of their 15,000,000-acrskyline" country. Usually was 17,204. Now it is some- to build them for lack of water. 0 There were several different they came by foot, often on bur where between 01,000 and row or wagon, but practically many more than the fruit- possible uses for the buildings, less land will adequately pro- but in 1948, the government never by automobile, Kit Carson vide for. Since Colonel definitely decided the value of To prepare the young Nava- the buildings would be best rounded up all but a few of the Navajos in 1864 for horse and I jos for successful life off the utilized as an Indian school. cattle stealing raids on the reservation, the only plausible Many persons and organizawhite wagon trains and settle-- answer to their population prob tions were active in the creation of the school. Spearheading the drive was Senator ArWounded To A Boarding School culture, and with strange pie. wit g Blocks e 65,-00- ...TAKE THE KIDS TO THE PLAYGROUND From A Military Hospital For 1 IV,. 't iaSX' - - - , x ' Mi , The Watkins Chamber of Commerce rallied to the cause a9 did practically all of the Brighams populace and their civic thur Af A t ;1 ' 4s- - . - r VAV , "T - Jt:l, , V. Box Elder organizations. Members of the Navajo Tribal council, governing body of the came to Brigham reservation, City and inspected the old Bushnell hospital, when it was closed. They indicated they were In favor of the school and in June of 1949, Dr. George A. Boyce, "yf; 'km. 20 superintendent, arrived here to prepare the buildings fo occupancy by January I. Working with a small staff to begin with, they exerted hurl culean effort to have the school ready in time. looked upon as a peaceful n people since Colonel Kit subdued them, the life of the early Navajo on the reservation was one of continuous war and rapine, the neighbor- -' ing Pueblo and Mexican villages usually being their vicCar-so- i f.aoT ... m ... The Intermountam Indian of the rehabilitation of casualtieshos- fJnally the Two, the U. S. government transferred built for I Pltal t0 a DoaTD1 g school for Navajo youngsters from six tims. This mode of life necessitated a constant change of docile and made the pursuit of native industries practically impossible, as strenuous activity in war gave way to comparative indo- (Continued on Following Page) |