Word: navaho
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arizona, New Mexico and Utah plateaux the Navaho Indians constitute a sort of peasantry, crowding into low, flat adobe shacks. Water is scarce and sanitation crude. That explains why so many Navahos have contracted trachoma, highly contagious eye disease. The eyelids become granulated and sticky. The victim squints, often becomes blind. Already one out of every four or five Indians has trachoma. Every third child has it, and at the reservation school at Fort Defiance, Ariz., every other pupil suffers. Aroused, Commissioner Charles H. Burke of the Indian Bureau, Department of the Interior, last week ordered the Fort Defiance school...
...graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1909 and assigned to the cavalry. From 1909 until 1912 he saw service on the Mexican Border and on the Navaho Indian Reservation. In 1912 he was selected for a year's instruction at the Mounted Service School at Fort Riley. From then until 1917 Major Goetz was on foreign service, part of the time acting as aide to Brigadier General C.C. Edwards. During the war Major Goetz was a temporary colonel in charge of a replacement brigade at Camp Jackson...