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When "Big Doctor," as the Indians call him, arrived at Ganado on the Navajo reservation in 1927, after twelve years of missionary doctoring in China, he found the Navajos in a "far sorrier plight than the Chinese." Typhoid, diphtheria and tuberculosis were rampant, and tribal medicine men were about the only "doctors" the Navajos had. Dr. Salsbury got the Presbyterian Board of Missions to build him a two-story stone hospital. He and his wife drove out over the rough wagon trails to drum up trade...
Died. Chee Dodge, 86, Chief of the Navajos, who for 62 years bossed and guided the nation's largest Indian tribe and the parched, poverty-stricken reservation (three times the size of Massachusetts) on which it lives; in Ganado, Ariz...
Where? was the question of the hour (see p. 29). Great Britain and France took precautions all around the Mediterranean. In Malta, Enrico Mizzi, Nationalist leader of the Council of Government, and a Catholic Actionist named Herbert Ganado were interned. In Cairo and Alexandria 700 fifth-columnist suspects were clapped into internment camps. An evacuation caravan took civilians away from Menton on the French-Italian frontier, prepared to evacuate Monte Carlo next...
...visit to the Navajo Reservation in 1933 I saw the school maintained by the Presbyterian Church at Ganado and I am quite sure that written Navajo was in use at that time. However, as I remember it, English was the language of the classroom...