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...beginning of the sacred sun dance. Hundreds of Ute Indian families had gathered to watch it. With them was a small group of Harvard students, who kept one eye on the dancers and another on a group of Ute children--their charges at a summer camp run by the Ute tribe...
Taking the campers to the sun dance promoted one goal of the PBH volunteers. It encouraged the Ute children to have respect for themselves as Indians. "We wanted them not to think of Indian as a dirty word," said Stephen L. Bayne '64, director of the project last summer. "We wanted them to consider old Indian culture as something to be proud...
Despite this reversal and the problem presented by short attention spans and the flirting of the older Ute girls, Bayne and Goldberg consider the science program a success. "All the campers had the thrill of experimenting," Bayne noted, "and all of them had a chance to look at nature in a different...
...that reason the Harvard volunteers went to reservations where they were invited by tribal councils and took part in programs the tribal councils sponsored. Camp Unitah, for example, has been operated by the Ute Tribal Council five years. In North Dakota, where two students taught rodeo skills to young Indian "cowboys," they worked as part of a recreation program sponsored by the affiliated tribes of Fort Berthold. At the White Mountain (Montana) reservation of the Apache, a Harvard volunteer joined a group of Indians in clearing camp sites, building cabins, and marking trails for a recreation park. Two 'Cliffies helped...
...Utes, generally considered one of the best organized Indian tribes in the country, particularly want a student researcher who will be able to examine the Ute language to discover which of its properties cause Ute-speaking children to have more trouble with English than most other foreign-speakers...