Show lost tribe of apache indians found by an explorer on a tour of mexico an explorer explorers s story of a lost tribe of apache indians mostly women and children clad in buckskins and fighting with primitive bows and ar rows for existence in the mountains of mexico saddened the office of indian affia aff lairs irs 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 W work a rk doctor ingstad formerly gover nor of greenland and spitzbergen Spitz bergen proved that the lost apaches of mexico are not a myth wh when e n he sought them last year mr collier said there is a vast mountain the commissioner wrote miles be low douglas anz ariz in mexico it rises to 13 feet and is cleft with huge canyons I 1 there on ledges such as moun tain lions or eagles might occupy or constantly moving from place to place sometimes afoot sometimes on stolen horses and weaponless ex capt for bows and arrows and hv mg ing on desert wild plants there doctor ingstad states are the lost apaches most of the survivors are worn en with a few children doctor ingstad never talked with them face to face but saw them at distances of 00 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 if they could be reached and led back to the united states possibly doctor ingstad will try again next year he is returning to norway leaving this strange and sad account with the indian office |