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Show Entering VISTAs tell Navajoland-loca- l every other month. This doesnt mean flying to Acapulco; they just drive two hours away to Page, south of Lake Powell, to see a movie and have hamburger. They feel silly and awkward in confessing that McDonalds hamburgers may well be what they miss the most. Mary Tanner works primarily with the Navajo who youngsters aged seem to prefer soaking their hands fnd feet in colors when painting, instead of learning how to count and solving puzzles. Or theyll just blow soap bubbles and have a good time. Mary will make them all feel her favorites and encourage them to progress as fast as they can. Her biggest problem is the language. Most children, like their parents, dont understand much English. She and Bob Mesa near Blanding. Ford, 23, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, talks about her work with the Ute tribe in White Gerem) are working hard to tr- - The Tanners have been well accepted by the people who, among other things, believe in harmony with nature not mastery over it, where white mans saving means sharing, where competition becomes cooperation and -- success is wisdom, not money. We consider ourselves lucky to be sent up here," they say with conviction. I envy the Tanners, it helps to be married here, says Douglas Berman, a old New Yorker from ar J?5? 9 ' J s. VISTA Bob Tanner, 23, of Bay City, Michigan, ob serves a Navajo basket weaver at work on the ( Photo by Yves Gerem) Navajo Mountain. 0 j 9 im- Save My reason for coming 2.00 SJ9 LATEX GLOSS HOUSE AND TRIM 4.00 do Reg. 10.99 Gal CflyA STUCCO TEXTURE FOR MEDIT. LOOK LATEX AND Reg. 8.19 TEXTURE PAINT Gal of the here was trying to 57 99 GUARANTEED ONE COAT INTERIOR FLAT LATEX train. V 1 MAGIC COLOR PAINT objects like She may be English. replaced late this year by a Navajo she herself will 'i Rye, who tutors children and adults in Mexican Hat, just outside the reservation. An unmarried sports fan who sends away for shirts and things, just so I can look forward to getting mail, Douglas has it pretty rough himself. He had to push his Toyota all the way to Cortez, Colorado, just to find a veterinarian who could operate on his pet cat, often the sole companion in Douglas rented trailer. On another occasion, a boy (Continued on Page 4) ?? emphasizes actions of things rather than the '..' 3 PAINT IN STORE ALL prove their conversational Navajo, a language that names Advocate, Price, Utah experiences 2-- 6, VISTA Susan Sun 1976 Thursday, May 6, Refl. W.99 Gal. something about the alcohol problem on the reser- Save GUARANTEED Q99 vation, says Bob. I soon ONE COAT found out I couldnt attack it LATEX Reg. 12.99 like I would in a city. He is HOUSE & TRIM Tanners stove, made from mixed blessings for their cautious not to Gal. impose his a third of 55 gallon oil drum, childrens undertaking ideas too forcefully and in the middle. They have to when told about the living works around LATEX the problem gather the wood for it conditions. BREATHER with alternatives to get themselves. There you are, Thats O.K. for you, PRIMER them interested in themReg. 11.49 already inside a sleeping they quote Bobs father, selves. Gal. Bob has a bag and gone. youre a boy scout, but recycling program running ONE RACK Bob and Mary Tanner are Mary - shes a woman! full steam, the proceeds VISTAs (Volunteers in They claim their hogan, from which are applied to Service to America) and because insulated with softball and table tennis have been on the Navajo mud. is warmer than equipment. He has also set a Masking tape 4 Brushes Mountain since last Ocnearby houses. Even when up an alcohol information Rollers a Spackle ta Thinner tober. Theyre part of a the mud was dripping and prevention center. But a Glues once of the six volunteers, through logs group he seems to be the most a Varathane Turpentine sponsored by the College of because of heavy rains, successful with his weekly a Paint trays of think wouldnt The Eastern Utah in Price. they guitar class, himself being VISTAs are scattered in moving out. Their door is an accomplished twelveMexican Hat, never locked; thefts are string guitar player. You Bluff, Montezuma Creek and almost unheard of on The dont have to be a drinker to White Mesa. All serve in Mountain. Electricity, too, join our guitar class, he Coa educational and social is superfluous to them. although the hard says, do We better without it, 264 S. Carbon Ave. programs that are carried Price core counseling is what he through in conjunction with says Bob, who was born in would like to do the most. San Antonio, Texas, and has Utah the . Navajo Council majored in sociology and Development DREAMH.OWER (UNDO headquartered in music from the Michigan DUSTINS POWDER State University in East Nationwide, Blanding. "Remember Mother's Day" there are 4,300 VISTAs, all Lansing. 5 oz. Mfg. List $1.25 Mary Tanner, a native of part of ACTION, the for Federal City and an Enlish Bay Agency from your neighborhood ASSOCIATB) DRUGGISTS Volunteer Services, whose major from the Western annual budget of $184 Michigan University in May million includes 6,400 Peace Kalamazoo, usually cooks Corps volunteers in 69 their meals on a miniature ntiiups developing nations and gas stove. The fare is PHILLIPS several other programs. mostly fried bread, a MILK ot MAGNESIA d Both and in pancake-lik- e Navajo 1 their early twenties, the specialty, mutton stew and Tanners met in high school canned goods they must Regular or Mint 12 oz. Mtg List $1.39 each back in Bay City, Michigan, polish off before the and married four months degree temperatures get to before joining VISTA. They them. Practically nothing will spread before the is thrown away, but should d visitor a family album of it happen to be a "QF TANKING LOTION BAYER ASPIRIN SHOP YOUR 4 oz. Bottle napkin, the dogs spacious, comfortable 50s Mtg List $1.09 Mtg List $2 79 homes which they left to will snap for it. A portable ASSOCIATED see a different part of the toilet, a little distance away DRUGGISTS country and may muse at and surely not a Hilton as STORES FOR his disbelief that anyone you stumble toward it with would want to trade it all for a flashlight in the dead of SAVINGS a hogan they the night, is always clean. The trading post is the rent from a neighboring store serving The month. a for $30 only PRESUN Tanning Lotion Navajo for Sensitive Skin Their parents, too, had Mountains population of 6 oz. Mtg. List $2 29 4 oz. Mfg List $3.35 about one thousand. Thats the where Tanners get their mail twice a week. There are two phones only on The Mountain. Newspapers are Complets not available. You can With Case, Instructions. listen to your transistor CRUEX MEDICATED Charts. radio at night only. AcSPRAY POWDER Nasal Spray to a oz. 4 Jim Kindred, 20 ml. Mtg List $1.79 Mfg. List $2.39 cording missionary in the region for e two years and now a VISTA supervisor who also teachers the Navajo in r BOUTIQUE HANGARS Blanding, Its maybe the w most isolated area in the PROTEIN 217 country. Travel in this SHAMPOO area is not recommended ax without guides, cautions a Rand McNally road atlas. 4 6 oz. Mtg. List $1.09 Normal. Oily or Dry On a monthly VISTA K fl i Al iLiKw 4.00 Save 2.50 PainQ Accessories VISTA Mary Tanner, 24, of children on the Navajo Mountain (Photo by Yves Gerem) Bay City, Michigan, working with preschool numb. But the road goes on and on as though you drove coffee, tea or just plain water is all theyll offer you. to Corpus Christi. Its all they have. Theres There, finally, is that last no electricity in their hogan bend. You have just passed so why not just forget about the Navajo Mountain the ice if you opted for a trading post, about five glass of water. Just because miles inside the Utah state your feet are sore and your line. Slabs of stone and scalp itchy doesnt mean and that anything can be done sand, sagebrush juniper are everywhere. about it. The Tanners have Way up norths you may to bring in their water from recognize the Henry quite a distance away; Mountains, where Butch washing here is more like Cassidy and Sundance Kid wetting your fingers and frustrated their pursuers. toes. There are no baths, Closer at hand, two dozen or living rooms, bedrooms or so dwellings seem to be kitchens in the hogan. thrown about at random Measuring about six steps like dice. Scraggly dogs eye in diameter, its all in one. you drowsily. You pick your No, theres no carpet on the way to a nearby hogan, a dirt floor, not even tiles. No traditional Navajo dwelling fancy mattresses, just a of logs and dried mud. The wooden bedframe, handsun may have set by now. made by Bob and covered Your feet sagging, you with sheepskin. You pick collapse from the jeep. You the choicest spot on the floor have acid in your stomach and screw your eyes in and shooting pains inside sorrow for yourself. At least your chest. But looking for a its warm; theres the Inn on The Holiday Mountain would be like trying to suppress the of Declaration Mexican Hat, Utah You have just left behind the San Juan River and trading post here. No customs officials at the border to stamp your passport. No walls to climb like in East Berlin. Hard liquor is unlawful here, but nobody tells you how many cigars you may smoke. Your English will get you by, yet a different tongue is spoken here by everyone. As a sign across the river tells you: YOU ARE ENTERING NAVAJOLAND, the largest Indian reservation in the United States. Numbering about 140,000, the tribe occupies an area almost the size of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont combined. Another hours drive through the magnificent Monument Valley and youll be in Kayenta, Arizona, the nations most remote post office. Its the only way to get to The Mountain, going this far south. As you reach the crossroads of Route 16 and 22, e. the paved road abruptly ends. Its House. the Heating 4C 76 A all long-haire- djz (licffi&ti (liu uidUe dll whip Vt: jp i ft4( j wim (ill WHIP IftilMti- Ilk-cilllUM- fts (TiWIi fm-dinvf- dftUlfo P c (IP ((dill oil Y Vi 1.37 IlH-ttf- fG.oon I M allowance of $200 each, the Tanners may splurge once iftdltsPdnijlftanoi.-- aMimvdluvi- - 4m J Heavy Duty Unbreakable Plastic Assorted Colors Ridged Pints Bar Ust 29 each dintilftipiftidftimimdjmvn (ip ffom 4l6.88 COLORFUL-DECO- itmUhlftilh (!K!fflU(WU'h,iTUW vVftV. P d ft Him- - caiilli)rti(!MMmim car-pa--, 2 1.77 part-tim- P I siywv7 7 grease-staine- & ansm Will) or-I- Suddenly, theres the Navajo Mountain in front of you, so close and yet so The Sacred distant. Mountain, 10,388 feet high, the highest point on the Navajolands 16 million acres. Already, the dust and washboard-lik- e road are a nuisance. Your back is 257c 90-pl- HUH" fiiisji- - Inscription - MMNESUi mud-covere- Bob and Mary Tanner will take you in as their guest. No point in making faces if gravel and dust before you. Unless you want your precious Chrysler parked at a junkyard permanently, you have left your car in Kayenta and hopped into a jeep. Its only about 42 miles from the crossroads to The Mountain, but youll soon find out it drags on as though it were 242. Your mouth is dry before you reach Carbon Plumbing and II sT fyS F II l1 a fr TABLETS V7 I fI tilth V, 3 PROTEIN 1 Regular or j 21 HAIR SPRAY 3 1.29J P 2.14 J P 1.39 t DEODORANT 5 oz. Mfg. List $2 50 R0U.-01 40s Mtg. 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