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Klondike Kid. The Katz family came to the U.S. from Austria when Ike was nine and Mike was one. After four years of school, Ike went to work at 13 on the Great Northern Railway, peddling Navajo blankets, straw mattresses (at $1.50 apiece), food & drink to prospectors going to the Klondike. Then Ike and Mike started their fruit stands. In four years of 19-hour workdays they made enough money (about $500) for Ike to buy a little down-at-heels hotel and make...
...series of technicolor flashbacks, "North Forty" tells the occasionally exciting, occasionally plodding story of the resistance of an isolated band of Wyoming sheep ranchers to the usurpation of their grazing land for a Navajo reservation...
...problem of the displaced white settler, "North Forty" mirrors forty years in the turbulent history of the Snopes family and its flight for survival. Pioneer settlers, the Snopes are forced to sacrifice first their flocks, then their land, then even their daughter to the alien customs of immigrating Navajos. The movie is climaxed in an effective juxtaposition of the old and the new; the last of the Snopes attempts to shear their few remaining sheep while an 11,000 man, three-day Navajo fertility rite sweeps over the fields. Only an act of Congress finally saves the settlers...
...Denver Art Museum staged a show last week that had more to do with anthropology than with esthetics. Entitled "Myths and Magic," it was a hodgepodge of everything from ancient Egyptian good-luck pieces and African fetishes to Solomon Island tabu sticks, Javanese puppets and Navajo sand paintings. Such things were not made merely to look at. Most of them had great visual impact, but their power was at least doubled by an understanding of the superstitions and purposes back of them...
Among his neighbors in the desert and mountain country around Grants, N.Mex. (pop. 2,281), husky, 59-year-old Paddy Martinez is conceded to be a well-rounded man. Paddy is part Navajo and part Spanish, stands 6 ft. 1 in., weighs 195, and has an outdoorsman's grizzled face. He runs a mountain sheep camp, works as a "head hunter" (labor recruiter) for carrot growers, talks Spanish, English, Navajo and the Laguna Indian language, has 14 children "and a lot of little fellows around the hogans" and is a dead shot with a rifle. He is also canny...