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Back to the earth, back to nature: that sums up the appeal of Indian adornment, plain or fancy. Even the most sophisticated Navajo silver carvings radiate intense, earthy vitality. Small pieces called Rock Kritters -- mostly rings, pins and tie clips -- leap with life: jumping men, running animals, charging warriors. Among the cheapest items available, they are adapted from ancient pictographs found in the Southwest desert...
...search for a culprit has been complicated by Indian customs. Navajos do not speak of the dead for fear it might slow the spirit's trip to the afterlife. Nor do they permit autopsies. Tribal members tend to view an untimely death with shame, since it might be interpreted as punishment for bad living. Indeed, some Indian elders were linking the illness to the adoption of fast food, MTV and video games. In radio broadcasts, Navajo president Peterson Zah beseeched his intensely private people to cooperate with health-care workers...
...encouraging note is that the illness does not appear to be highly contagious. But that has not stemmed concern on and off the reservation. Last week a private day school in Los Angeles canceled a long-planned visit of 27 Navajo third-graders from Chinle, Arizona, fearing the children might be carrying the disease...
...mysterious illness that took the lives of 11 people, most of whom lived on or near the large Navajo reservation straddling the borders of three Western states, has confounded epidemiologists attempting to determine its cause. The disease starts with flulike symptoms and rapidly causes suffocation. "I went to get a haircut today," said the editor of a local Navajo newspaper, "and somebody was saying maybe it's the end of the world...
...mysterious illness has stricken the Navajo nation...