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Claffin gave a talk on his experiences in the Indian territory, where he has spent his last ten summers. Unlike the Navajo Indian, the Pueble Indians welcome government aid as a means of escaping work, he declared...
...Whenever the government undertakes a project to educate the Navajo Indians, they simply pack up and move," said William H. Claffin '41, at the third meeting in the American Civilization series which was on Indian culture of the past and of the present...
...Water-grass-story of the Navajo," which traces the history, customs, and industry of the Navajos is the first film, and "Indian Villages of Antiquity," the second film, describes the cooperative farming plan of the Pueblo Indians...
...second problem in developing accurate, clear communication between the Government and the Navajos was not handled by us at all, but by Mr. Rudolf Modley, who should receive public credit. It is not quite correct to state that Navajo, as it exists, can't find a word for such terms as "sheep unit." The trouble was that the interpreters, misunderstanding such terms, used the wrong terms in Navajo. Mr. Modley gave statements involving all such new terms to an interpreter, who passed them on in Navajo to several other English-speaking Navajos. These in turn told Mr. Modley...
With a workable alphabet, interpretation corrected, and a collection of phrases which had been tested on a number of non-English-speaking Indians, Mr. Modley got out his posters, with text in Navajo and English...