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...Yazzie" is Navaho for "Shorty," the affectionate nickname of Franciscan Father Berard Haile (rhymes with wryly), who has spent 53 of his close to 80 years laboring to bring Navahos to Christianity and Christians to an understanding of the Navahos. It was in the latter role that the little white-haired priest came before the Council last week to speak for an hour and a half in his deep, booming voice...
...during his years among them, he explained, he had learned from their medicine men what no white man had known before him: the whole of the "Blessing Way"-a sacred, secret collection of ceremonies covering the whole religious life of the Navaho people. He had written it all down, he told them, making sure to search out its purest, uncorrupted form; now he wanted to get it printed for a record of the Navahos among the peoples of the world. And it was not only permission he wanted-he needed money to publish the manuscript and he was turning...
Peabdoy expeditions often are pioneering anthropological projects, branching into relatively undeveloped areas of study. According to a common anecdote, probably as old as the Piltdown Man and just about as authentic, every Navaho family consists of a father, a mother, two children, and an anthropologist. Peabody has done it share in the past to develop such familiar channels of research, but pr recent years, Museum expeditions have tended to enter virgin anthropological territory...
...canyon itself is one of America's most beautiful and least-known national monuments. It lies at the heart of the Navaho reservation, about 80 miles northwest of Gallup, N.M. on a spine-rattling dirt road. Down the winding course of the canyon runs an underground river. In summer, Navahos farm the sandy banks and dig for water in midstream. Superstitiously afraid of the cave ruins, they build their hive-shaped hogans at the feet of the sky-filling sandstone cliffs. The Navahos still paint animals, like the cows below, on the cliffs; the earliest known example of their...
...remove the state ban on the sale of liquor to Indians, as a step in establishing full civil rights for them? "I don't see how any Christian can say anything to the liquor traffic but 'No!' " cried the Rev. E. P. Smith, missionary from the Navaho reservation. But after short, sharp debate (and a score of abstentions), the synod recommended lifting the ban. Vote...