Deseret Evening News | 1906-05-12 | Page 27 | The Pastoral Navajos

TIm TI lH I X t AJOS JUS I Indian Who i i lilli I III rely multi audiT n its liS i I A oj Fitly Mile I lbs Iloni Home I Tho The Navajos are arc a 1 pastoral PatrI ho at muchal dial el i IJ Their Theil whole culture und timid dt centers In their flocks Their ien Jt ot of miles Is desert broken with mountain and mesa macso On Out tho the mesi macca low mountains there are able areas S of ot I C pInon ti and I 1 cedar and lint on tho tue higher ii r mountains II I I C a it limited ed ot or 0 C beautiful pine forests fOlO III Over this re region reo gion the Navajo drive their heIr At Atthe Att t the lie t ecu sums ot when the be t light Blight HII hl maimi Coil gives thell even n a on It I desert pIn la IIII th lii ks tire lire Ila there As Alt tho hue on the eta lower loner lei levels els Is g both with the tho hot Cu un mid If I nil with tim Ihl Hocks alt aie up Into the mountains whore thieve hero Is Ismore moro more moisture Again an tot the tho deep win winter wInter ter tI co COniC niti on oil the sheep cheep must bo be betaken taken down out of oC tho tue mountains to 10 ex CK cape tIle thorn them During till this time they thoy tire are kept on In fl the t I ht he wooded woodell mesa where wh ro th there therl ic icIs I Is isse 1111 unit A R plentiful supply of oC wood Vod woi I of ot which there la is none on time the Plains plain below Year In itt year out th N Navajo flocks are tire Lack back a nil forth to r h mr Ito j 1111 la in n to mount I I up meRit macca anil ini AMillo W hilt the tho III life lit Itt Is IR a II cruder Ing big one cute he hI Is iB not what could be called a 1 His Ills zone zono of wander wandering ing lug Is limited on ou tho the same caine grounds groUnd his fathers Cathers father have hao kept heIr Choir locks hocks The Tho Navajo could not guile guide you OU u n distance dl to ex cx exceed 50 GO miles untIes season had with him hint two Navajo men mell of oC mid midale middle die ale ago uig nR who hid lived their lives llen with within in III It It a rile ride of ot the tho mouth of oC Canyon de choll Chell and this was tho the heat first time tune they tile the hud the length of or ft th lit mn This rut Is C lit li OttO from fromm th lie tart lart that it Is H the thc most re rem m scenic spot nod 1 the thc larger J i I part lart of ot the th great of or Navajo j legendary lore centers In iii this canyon m t l II il JJ Ii J P U Curtis hi lii i UrA 1 t