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Show Lost Tribe of Apache Indians Found by an Explorer on a Tour of Mexico An explorer's story of a lost tribe of Apache Indians, mostly women and children clad in buckskins and fighting with primitive bows and arrows ar-rows for existence in the mountains of Mexico, saddened the office of Indian affairs, states a writer in the Washington Star. Commissioner John Collier writes of "this strange and sad account" given the Indian office by Dr. Helge Ingstad, Norwegian ethnologist, in a recent issue of Indians at Work. Doctor Ingstad, formerly governor gover-nor of Greenland and Spitsbergen, proved that the "Lost Apaches of Mexico" are not a myth when he sought them last year, Mr. Collier said. "There is a vast mountain," the commissioner wrote, "150 miles below be-low Douglas, Ariz., in Mexico. It rises to 13,000 feet and is cleft with huge canyons. "There, on ledges such as mountain moun-tain lions or eagles might occupy, or constantly moving from place to place, sometimes, afoot, sometimes on stolen horses, and weaponless except ex-cept for bows and arrows, and living liv-ing on desert wild plants; there, Doctor Ingstad states, are the Lost Apaches. "Most of ihc survivors are wom en, with a few children. Doctor Ingstad never talked with them face to face, but saw them at distances of 100 yards, clad in buckskins, fleeing on. "The ancient Apache-Mexican feud carries down, and 'Kill them on sight' is the rule toward Apaches, he says. "Their extinction could be prevented pre-vented if they could be reached and led back to the United States. Possibly Pos-sibly Doctor Ingstad will try again, next year. He is returning to Norway, Nor-way, leaving this strange and sad account with the Indian office." |