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American Indians are on the warpath against cheap Japanese imitations of tribal handicrafts. From the Southwest, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the National Park Service have received complaints about Japanese versions of Navaho beadwork, Zuni jewelry, Hopi kachina dolls (painted wooden dolls representing Indian deities). From the Northwest have come reports of made-in-Japan totem poles and ivory carvings. The Japanese imitations sell for as little as one-fifth Indian prices. Up until last year, the Park Service had a regulation against sales of foreign-made handicrafts by concessionaires in national parks, but the ban was lifted...
Whipped to Manhood. But the Zuni chiefs knew nothing of all this. What had brought them together and what they passed around among themselves was a picture clipped from the Denver Post showing groups of two of their most potent gods, the Mudheads and the Shalakos, among the white men. After due deliberation, the chiefs sent a delegation to the Indian Commissioner in Gallup, N. Mex., 33 miles north of the pueblo, to protest against the sacrilege and to inform him that henceforth the great Zuñi pueblo would be closed to all non-Zuñi visitors...
Before the Navahos came, Pueblo forebears of the Hopi and Zuni Indians lived in the canyon. They turned its widest caves into apartment houses big enough for hundreds of families each, and decorated the walls with mysterious figures such as the rabbits at left. Still farther back in the darkness of the canyon's Stone Age lived the so-called Basket Makers, who had no pottery and no bows & arrows. Like Europe's earliest painters, they pictured their own hands flat against the rock, as if to say simply: "We were here...
...Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Glenn L. Emmons, 57, a Gallup, N.Mex. banker and longtime friend and popular partisan of the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Ute. Apache and Pueblo tribes in his neighborhood. As commissioner, said Emmons, he will aim to "liquidate the trusteeship of the Indians as quickly as possible," and make them self-supporting citizens...
...greeted by an enthusiastic crowd and signs-"How, Big Chief Eisenhower." After sitting through a parade of tribal dancers, Ike began his speech: "Governor Mechem, Chairman Ahkeah . . . and I hope I may say my brethren of the Zuni, Hopis, Apaches, Papagos, Rio Grande Pueblos, Navajos, the Sioux . . ." He got a huge round of applause as he rattled off the Indian names, continued: "I am particularly sensitive to the great honor you have done me . . . asking as your guest one belonging to the profession [Army] that in years past was your enemy . . . Out of the stories that surrounded that epic campaign...