New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-23
DEBORAH OF THE HOPS.
Mshwe. for Love Of Her People, Seeks Their
Enlightenment.

The success ~ the Indian industries and The
rerpetua-ion y native crafts IS now practically
assured" SAID Mrs A : Quiuton. president CT the
National Indian Association. At a recent meeting.
and uow the association can turn its attention
n other directions
Thanks largely 10 the inspiring and unceasing
Efforts Of Mr. r y. Doubleday. chairman OF the
Industrial Department Of the National Indian As
go-isti0r. the sales Of Indian wonens goods
through the association have amounted in the last
wear n $500 iu New-N0rk C-ry alone. The work
is In demand everywhere with special department.
given 20 their wares in every large department or
Cr-i0 store. So that this branch Of our work can
-ov- -e laid aside for other more pressing needs
a---f.- line Of work that is about completed IS
-r7- - the loan fund for assistance I'm building
homo r-r rh- Indians. The Young Indian men
have -r-. reached the point where they know how
~ build and like o-her youn- men prefer 90 Go
-fr- op-n work We erfT have applications for
-o rs -o =r- ther 10 r business. and iu some cases
81 - money ueT expended
..~r. .-sfre rea7 to-Eav Is for more missionaries
.~ ----- --r GOSPEL % the heather in our own
and Dc seems incredible that in Christian land
rfe-r should SAN remain tribes where the Gospel
DIS -r..r t.-.a rrrea ehel. where human sacrifices
s..a ---I offered. as among some pf the Alaskar-.
va--. ---t arcs ore inflicted for 'vitchcraft as
...... -...a ~ tr, tribes lr TIE Southwest, or
s..-. rtn--- --.r rrav 90 IDOLS the work o- their
..v- .-rEe d. has been me privilege ~ This DIS
.a.-.tfe. during th= last twenty years 10 have
started more -laa Hftv different missions among
f-. --its- where there were none and then. as
r.a. .- a f1o-irg was established. buildings were
els.f.. and schools opened. 10 turn the work over
.--s tue hands o. whichever of the various de-
r,-.rstrrsI boards should ask for il and agree To
carry or the work
Usually We have carried only two or three 4
ti.sas missions ~ -I--a but one year we had
eleven o1 our hands ar ouee-some nearly finished
and ready to Doe turned over and some that were
f,sr rr -fe initial stale-. This year we have two
SPECIAL felds ln whICh we are working, but there
are SIN some tweuty-o-e tribes yet 20 be reached
Our v-7-z -lifs year lies among the Navaios. ~
Tuba. A~iz. and among rre HCpis. az Moencopi.
Ariz AT Tuba. an old Mormon town. whore the
Eoverrc1t has lately allotted lands 10 the Narajos
and is now opening government boarding school
Cor them the mission work IS iD the hands uf two
faithful and competent women, Miss Johnson and
Miss Sawyer. who add 70 their S1rirtlrai teach
'nRs the care the sick and the instruction Of the
women in sewing ano the care Of their homes
The field is large and promising one and The in
the vors 81 the village % Moencopi which
is about Try miles west OF oral6i-the {Hird mesa
ans low Tor her people. Mshwe who is the herdi-
tsry CHIEF al her clan. has husband. who though
also chief. is indolert. and incompetent. NshWe.
o. TIE other hand IS TIE very spirit ~ activity.
and Ike Deborah ~ old. carries the cause Of her
people in her heart 1--WE OF SIX years ago she
mounted ner pouy and rode seventy miles over the
Painted Desert 70 see Nr Johnstone. the mis-
WIZ YOU talk navajo she said and not
and raise crops and Navajos rich Hopis have no
NJ Johnstone explained that his work was with
ne Naval Jos. but that he would pray the Great
erfrit send 10 her village, 20 teach her
reoule but she must pray. too. SO she went her
~ The next season she hack again.
s'.The Great Spirit did not hear she said
PRAYED but no enc has come
The Great Spirit always hears. -eul-eG the
MISSIONARY but We must keep ou praying
For i've years the little olo woman made the
tz-~o -~fr across the desert. always praying that
80 r--ee- Spirit would send a teacher 70 her peo-
nc And now her prayers are answered The
Eocistior has taken up the work and teacher has
Fer- ar-0f-f1C MahUe has offered 70 build the
house fG- fhe teacher herself for among the HOpis
81 Is tte women who build the houses and M
who weave and knit the Stockings Tor The family.
= -he building however. entails TOO much labor
o. Naive who is over sixty years old. the assoc
love The people Of this little village I've 10 small
adobe Cliff Derched houses, filling the soil a. the
base q -fe mesa. where they raise corn and
uelo-s Trer have also small peach orchard the
descendants q the trees set out by the black
TuEne6 e-ars during the Spanish occupation IN the
sixteenth century.
The I5opls more than any other tribe ~ In
cans have preserved their integrity a. . people.
cirginE 70 the customs. modes or lie. hatlIall0ns
CoLservaIivp ID The extreme. many Of the nCstiles
q the faction opposed 70 any change, have re-
ss,sa The orders ~ rhe government 70 seud their
-Aarer 70 school even 70 the point OF lInflrlsoil-
- lQr ITEMS A. flis = the only Tribe
,it Noner exercise their rights without nolesta-
ne cuiy Tribe where WOmen's CLUBS nave
erf3-ec Tor centuries. this voluntary peuJlon Tor
r,o@s .-.Ilert on me part of MahWe-One OF lneif
ltciec lealers-=eerls ample uleoEe tnat
fan mo lsilor and lts missionaries y sure 10