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With the first frost, the Zuni, Navajo and Mescalero Apache Indians of New Mexico go out to harvest the little piñion nuts which grow on stubby pines atop the two great mesas, Cerro Alto and Santa Rita, close to the Continental Divide. For the past three years the crop has been scant, but such a yield was promised this year that the Navajos quit hammering silver and weaving blankets in anticipation of selling tons of piñion nuts at 5? to 10? per lb. Last month 1,000 Navajos and 300 Zunis went a-nutting in small...
...became one of the leading literary figures of his class, spent his summers on university archeological expeditions to Arizona and Utah. Later he investigated Indians and temples in Guatemala and Mexico, wrote a book about it (Tribes and Temples) with Frans Ferdinand Blom. His first novel, Laughing Boy, a Navajo love story, won the Pulitzer Prize for 1929. Long, lank, dark-skinned, dark-haired, with a little mustache over a big mouth, Author La Farge has "low-swinging, gorilla-like arms," has some-times been mistaken by Indians for one of themselves. He is married to Wanden Mathews, lives...
...Magazine, advisory editor to publishers, instructor of English, lecturer on poetry. His two sidelines are poetry and American-Indian and Chinese art. With Kiang Kang-hu he translated a Chinese anthology, Jade Mountain. He lives in Santa Fe, N. Mex.. in the midst of Chinese jade, Mexican scrapes, Navajo rugs. He likes to play the piano, laugh and sing. Other books: Young Harvard, Grenstone Poems, The Beloved Stranger, A Canticle of Pan, Caravan...
...Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park fortnight ago Navajo Indians were giving a tribal fire dance. One interested spectator was a very tall, very thin man with bright deep-sunken eyes. Beside him stood the manager of a bus company. Suddenly the bus manager clapped his hand to his right side, groaned in agony, collapsed. The tall thin man had him removed to an emergency hospital nearby, tapped his abdomen, announced crisply: "Appendix. We'll have to operate at once. Not a moment to lose...
Sponsor of the amendment was North Dakota's broad-shouldered, bald-headed Lynn Joseph Frazier, chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee, who contended that Mr. Hagerman's duties duplicated those of the Indian superintendents, that his tribal councils were ineffective, that he had "pulled off a deal" in Navajo oil leases which disqualified him for "a job on the Government payroll...