Word: navajoized
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Isolated from the world, the Navajos have no paved roads, no movies, no electric lights, dwell in mud-&-log hogans, seldom leave their reservation. Because they have no cows, Navajo squaws nurse children many months after birth. Nearly three-quarters of the Navajos speak no English. In the last few years, the U. S. Office of Indian Affairs has built more than 40 Navajo schools, sent out about 150 young women teachers. To drum up business, the teachers invited squaws to their schoolhouses for hair-washing parties (the schools have pumps, a luxury in the arid Navajo country), then persuaded...
...picture showed a pirt of the 45th Division of the National Guard, which has headquarters at Oklahoma City, maintains units in Oklahoma, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico. In August 1924, the division, at the suggestion of the Arizona department, adopted as its insignia an old Navajo Indian emblem, a swastika.* In August 1924, Adolf Hitler was in Cell No. 7, Landsberg Fortress, near Munich, serving time for his "beer-hall Putsch," eleven years away from making the swastika the centre of the German national flag...
...dramatization of the recent (1919-35) changes in Navajo Indian life. The Enemy Gods follows the general theme of Author La Farge's previous Indian fiction: the poor results of trying to adapt Indians to white wavs. The variation this time is a more ambitious social and political background. On the literary side the novel's chief failings appear at those points where the anthropologist, the sociologist and the novelist could not get together...
...September 1919 a scrawny, big-eyed Navajo moppet entered the mission boarding school-one of the few beginners whom the mission truck did not have to carry off like a stray dog. Deloused, cropped, outfitted with blue work shirt, overalls, Leavenworth-made clodhoppers, named Myron Begay to replace Ashin Tso-n Bigé, quartered in dismal, overcrowded barracks, fed on 11? a day, Myron nevertheless preferred this atmosphere to life with his stepfather. When his mother came to take him home for the summer, he refused to go, saying he was "going on the Jesus Trail and be just like...
...Before the night was over Myron had backslid as far as he could go. But when he offered to marry her she said he was too mixed-up in his mind to make a husband. By the time she changed her tune. Myron had finally made peace with his Navajo gods, had finally renounced his mission-learned, mixed-up ways...