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Show Pueblo Indians Contented With Old Customs; Don't Want Citizenship 1 - - - - - fr - yr,r,--,n.--M--vm' . , -1 ' ' .- . ' i. r ' 4 - . s-Jlfc ' Wuie. 'jegHt '. - , -'" .J w - !-...! -v, Vv ",..-' -, , ... .... J . few bil iUJ-i . . p e.r u.-fzyte&vxK- rat - 1 A typieal Puble Indian villag en th mat of Naw Maxioa and Arixona. whin tha Puablo Indiana ara quita contant to liva undar thair own lawa and with thair awn auatoma, without tha privilagaa af Amarican eitizan-ahip. eitizan-ahip. Although a bill has baan introducad in eangre aa to grant tham full eitizanahip rights, thay hava rafuaad it, saying thay would rathar ba laft alona, and that thay faar exploitation by grasping businaaa intarasta. Inset, . an eld Puablo Indian, of tha kind to whom the ballet would be given. Illut tha Pufblo Indiana hare nrver come into close contact with pro-freaatva pro-freaatva white cnmmun'tiM. Hence : they feel that citisenship for them I U not only impracticablu. It in not I a boon or act of Justice at all, but ! a precarious turn Ins; loone of lambs i among; wolves. Thie Is true, not j because of their backwardness, but I because of their long established and peculiarly advanced native institutions. institu-tions. They prefer to liva in their , own way. continuing to support and : govern themsalvea am they have always al-ways done. Moreover they fear,, the novelty of disorganisation, the probable prob-able land swindles, and llbertiea and obligations for which they are unprepared. un-prepared. i Bducation and white Influence have hardly affected the surface of the traditional life of these Indians. They remain today the most conservative, con-servative, the most thrifty, fncor-cruptible fncor-cruptible and, according? to many, the most worthy Indiana in the t'nfted HUtcs. N. E. A. Staff Special. PHOENIX. Aria.. March 11. The Pueblo Indiana of New Mexico and Arizona, who established picturesque cave aparlmeutH In the hillsides muny centuries ngo. don't want to become citizens of the I'nited State. Altuough certain senators and congressmen con-gressmen are fiphtinn to get them citizenship, they Hhake their heada. They don't want any of the attendant at-tendant responsibiltiea and taxes the people who were here lona; bofore the cominif of the white man and who. hemmed in on all sides by aifffreasive bUMlnes men and corporations corpora-tions seeking their lands and property, prop-erty, have never (riven up the aliffht-e.st aliffht-e.st veatljfe of their own peculiar institutions and tradition. According to those wtio advocate the bill now before conareaH; the i 170.000 Indians who are now govern- j ment wards ore entitled to citizenship citizen-ship on the ground that they are not j aliens; that 12,000. or per cent, of their manhood, as compared with 4 per cent of the American ritixene, remained true to their fighting instincts in-stincts and volunteered In the Ku rope ro-pe nn. war; that the Indians bought more than $10,000,000 worth of liberty lib-erty bonds and contributed gener Lous ry to wartime charity. The bill M looked - upon aa a reward a,nd reparation for the long" sufferings of. tH rod man during thA pnwt rntury. |