Show STUDY OF NAVAJO indian LIFE div INTE REST ag TOPIC BY J F ANDERSON R 0 ight in the heart of the great southwest occupying a reservation er ot more than eighteen million acres in arizona utah and new mexico thrives the largest tribe of indians indiana in north america the navajo indian M X xvi X n X k ak i X mummy ammy of the extinct race of cliff dwellers photographed with relics buried with him courtesy of salt lake herald republican reservation is ex times inies as large as the state of massachusetts chu twenty six times the area of rhode island and more than liala as large M as england and wales upwards of malajos navajos occupy this arid urea area according to the latest government census because of the scattered pastoral life of the navajo und and the roughness of the country the population can call only be estimated the population bo however wever is is rapidly increasing for the cavajos navajos are one of tile acho very few tribes in Ani america erica that are chri v ing under the ree restraints of reservation er ervn tion life the T he tribe lias has been influenced but little atle in its induE industrial trial social and political life by the 11 intrusion of the paleface pale face it I 1 is s this duct which makes a study of navajo life intensely interesting as a modern example e of primitive in i ti ve life and cu customs castonis practised practiced on a large scale it lius has been the policy of tile the government tit at Washing washington toni since shwe the cavajos navajos were finally conquered by kit cars larsn n in ill 1863 to interfere as little its as possible with the civil life of tile tribe their system of government is surprisingly advanced it is almost a pure democracy in which the chief and liis his subordinates hold their positions by popular vote and the tenure of office depends on their good behavior the tribesmen have bave never hesitated to depose an incompetent chief and elect a successor who by prowess and superior wis wisdom doin possessed the confidence of the people to be continued |