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...dusty, eight-year-old boy looked on when the great General William Tecumseh ("War is hell") Sherman and three Navajo leaders signed the treaty. That warm spring day in 1868, the 7,000 Navajos promised to switch from marauding to sheepherding; in return, the U.S. pledged them a reservation, schools, and a teacher for every 30 children...
Last week the U.S. promised again to honor its promise, and might even do so at last. The eight-year-old boy, now 86, had been chief of the Navajos for 62 years-though not a Navajo himself. Chief Chee Dodge, who is half Spanish and half Pueblo, was bedded with heart trouble...
They had to educate themselves to white man's ways or come near to starvation. Some-like Chee's son Tom (by a Navajo wife), a Harvard-educated lawyer who married a white woman-have made the jump successfully. For most Navajos it would be impossible without more schooling: 80% of the tribe is illiterate, 57% cannot speak English...
Last week, as the Navajo conclave ended, Indian Commissioner William A. Brophy promised to open all but one of the reservation schools...
...master of the tools of his trade, he directed everything from serials to spectacles. He shot the supercolossal Marie Antoinette in 67 days, The Thin Man in 17. He called Greta Garbo "kid," joined every organization in sight, including the Elks, the I.W.W., the Masons, the Socialist Party, the Navajo and Nez Perce tribes...