Identifier: cu31924028656738 (find matches)
Title: American Indians : first families of the Southwest
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Huckel, John Frederick, 1863-1936 Harvey, Fred
Subjects: Indians of North America
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : F. Harvey
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e, died out ofdoors. And the woman of the Apache asked no odds when it came to meetinghardship. She followed her lord in his fights and in his flights on the hardest ofmarches, over desert and mountain crag. When the chase grew hot the Apache warriors baggage was restricted to abreech clout, his weapons and all the cartridges he could belt about his body. Ina desert that would not give subsistence to a goat the Apache found food enoughto fight on. The shunned mescal gave him a nutritious bread, an intoxicant andeven thread. In his last fighting days he carried the best of rifles and better fieldglasses than those of the officers trying to find him. Today youll find Apaches at work on the farm or with a construction gang,helping to reclaim the desert in which they for years challenged the power of 60million people. And those fierce, tireless women and their daughters—can yousee them patiently, painstakingly making dyes and weaving strangely figuredbaskets ? Digitized by IVIicrosoft®
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>-< Q. < Iu<a.< Digitized by IVIicrosoft® The Problem of Existence as Met bya Desert People Were all the rest of America laid waste Hopiland and its people could go onliving with very little change in their daily routine. They can grow everythingthey eat and can make everything they wear. When one considers the obstaclesovercome day after day by these Indians of the desert the feeling for them can beone of nothing less than admiration. They had to build their homes on mountaintops for protection against marauders. Their fields, at times miles away and poorenough in themselves, gave forth very scanty crops unless water was led to them.The quest for fuel meant a journey far from the little fortress of a home on themesa. The illustration shows one of these fuel trains homeward bound. Theburros are laden with bits of cedar and pinon, gathered miles away. Notice thesturdy, businesslike stride of the man in white—it is one not popularly associatedwith the Indian. In the di

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