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...went into the interior of the Indian Country and visited the little Hopi villages built on top of narrow mesas, accessible only by foot...
...pollywogs of culture who inhabit Santa Fe think Mr. Nusbaum is a Jew. He is an Episcopalian, a Mason, a Republican, and, say all Indians, a "good guy." He used to ask a lot of foolish questions about how do you say this in Navaho, and why do the Hopi do that. Now he knows more about the Indians and their ancestors than Indians themselves know. He has a young son, Deric, who gets on well with Indians and has written a book about them.* The elder Nusbaum likes to go picking into dirty old caves, and if he finds...
...fearful maw of Red Rock Canyon. To the north is the Painted Desert and farther on, famed Meteor Crater, 600 ft. deep; the tiny boxes at the bottom are cabins of an expedition which has located, is digging up the meteorite. Farther on mesa dwellers, descendants of the original Hopi, gaze up from their doorways in the face of the earth at the winged monster on high. Beyond Kingman the plane crosses the Colorado River into California from where, if the day be clear, the passenger can see the lowest and highest points in the U. S.; Death Valley...
Twenty-two red legs carrying eleven redskins were throbbing over the 480-mile Redwood Highway between San Francisco and Grant's Pass, Ore. The red lips of Miss Redwood Empire, "little fawn" of the Hopi Indians, greeted John Mad Bull of the Karook tribe when he staggered across the finish line last week-the winner of the marathon. He had covered the 480 miles (longest footrace ever held in the U. S.) in 7 days, 12 hours, 34 minutes. He was rewarded with a $1,000 prize, to which he added $50 to purchase an automobile...
Near Flagstaff, Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, chief Smithsonian ethnologist, has taken up summer quarters to study the Hopi ruin of Wupatki, which he first described 25 years ago and last year succeeded in having preserved as a national monument...