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Flying into Claremore from Washington to address the business-suited Blackfeet, Apache, Sioux, Mohawk, Chinook, Zuñi, Cheyenne, Chocktaw, Kickapoo and others was Commissioner Glenn Emmons himself, onetime New Mexico banker and a longtime neighbor and friend of the Navajo. Listing such Indian advances of the recent past as better health care and improved educational facilities, Emmons declared his own "confidence in the native capacities of Indian people-in their ability to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps if they are only given a decent opportunity." But, predictably, Emmons' words of encouragement fell on ruffled feathers...
...Some $500,000 for clothing for schoolchildren so that the poorest Navajo youngster can go warmly dressed to school...
...ranch for breeding high-grade rams to improve Navajo herds...
...Things & Thugs. With the oil income going for scholarships instead of firewater, things are looking better for the Navajos than at any time since the day when Coronado hove into the area in 1540. "We are shooting for big things," says Chairman Jones. "Within a few years we hope to have every Navajo child over six in school. We want to send our young people to college. We want them to come back to us, too, and we will use oil money to make places for them as doctors, lawyers, teachers, engineers...
...loyalty to the prosperous tribe and abiding faith in its future are running strong. "We are growing," a Navajo leader explained last week. "Indian tribes may be declining in some places, but the Southwest will have to deal with the Navajos forever...