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Thereupon the Office of Indian Affairs created a new Navajo language. Its authors: Novelist-Ethnologist Oliver (Laughing Boy) La Farge and Smithsonian Institution's Dr. John P. Harrington. The new language used the English alphabet, created words which resembled the scientists' jargon and the Navajos' vernacular closely enough so that both sides could make head & tail of them. Last week posters drawn by Navajo artists and designed to teach Navajos the language by means of pictures and text (see cut) were displayed all over the reservation. Passed around in Navajo classrooms was the first Navajo primer...
...male, with a yellow throat with raw sienna, a yellowish olive patch on the back, a brownish hue on the flanks, a gull-blue back. He had never seen a warbler quite like it before. Later he bagged a female of the same species, sent both birds to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, which, he knew, had specimens of every known bird in the U.S. But the Smithsonian birdmen could find nothing to match Haller's warblers...
Last week the Smithsonian's Curator of Birds Herbert Friedmann announced that a new species had been discovered, first new bird found in the U.S. proper for 21 years. Name: Dendroica potomac Haller. Dr. Friedmann could not understand where the species had been hiding all this time. Next spring he plans to get troops of amateur bird-snoopers to help him find...
...report was based on extensive studies during the past four summers at the Lindenmeier site in Colorado, which had been investigated by archeologists under Dr. Frank H. B. Roberts, Jr. of the Smithsonian Institute, and is considered "the most important find in recent years." If has yielded over 2,000 ancient stone implements, many of which were found imbedded in the vertebrae of extinct mensters. Around these and similar relies found elsewhere, a whole civilization of so-called "Folsom men" developed...
...more recently discovered Folsom site in Colorado, the Lindenmeier site, .appeared on geological evidence to be even older. A point was found there actually imbedded in a bison vertebra. Dr. Frank Harold Hanna Roberts Jr., of Dr. Hrdlicka's own Smithsonian Institution, put its age at 20,000 years...