Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1904-10-01

Charles NJ sheldon dId not sing the
above familiar dity nt hls lecture al
Central church last nipht un the sub.
ect Of the Navajo and Mok Indians.
boot % might have been appropriate.
sa9a the Topeka State Jurnai.
/ Mr. sheldon spent part OF hia sum.
mor ou' in Arizona visiting the Do.
diaus and ho has picked up a large
amount of interesting information
about thom. also fine collection of
7 Navajo blankets and Indian utensils.
Tho Nayai0s appear to have only
one Joke and that ioso ls on their
ueIshbors who are .ummoniy known
ae The Mokis Tho real name Of the
molk tribe is iop. not Mold. Hopi
means peaceful people" The Nava.
ios nn the other hand. are warlike.
ana they in dorIsion call the Hopi
fr.h "Mokis." which means dead
ones Considering the fact that q
was CIRCULATED hy n Navajo. this 81 n
very good joke % worked tho United
States go, rnmcnt an rIrht. for 81 iu
only recently that tho government
maps have .ycu The Hopia tholr
proper name
Some very cloraui gray and black
rlgs and blankets were exhibited by
Mr. sheldon Co tho larro audience las,
night together with morous other
articles in common use with both Na.
vaios and Uopis Tho proceeds of the
lecture about ttO0-wIU io used 90
buy n carpet Tor the recently rebuilt
Central church
10 you never ate uiddio cakes
baked on q buzz saw said Mr Shell.
don in speaking oft tho wagon trin
through fhe Indian country. yDu don
know much about cooking our party
orlwuatCd the CUSTOM among the
Navaios We would dIr a hole ln tho
ground lay the buzz suv over me top.
and build "a fire In the hole. Then we
had draft both ways and dld our
cooking on the huzzsaw The Ia.
dams would crowd around to watch
us"
An interesting siou was told OF
the trip across the painted desert the
experience with bugs lizards. scor.
pions and floods "Bu we dld not
see snake" said Mr. sheldon "Tho
missionary who has been there eight
years says BE- has never seen a snake
where the Indians get the snakes for
their snake dance is mystery
"rhe term lazy az IN Indian doea
not apply to the Navalos continued
Mr. sheldon. There are about 5000
Nayalos and they are increasing $50
numbers They are q rugged people
and the missionaries ont there say
they have never seen "a drunken Nnva
io Tho women always own tho sheep
The men own the horses aud ponies
and ull me fields
They have peculiar supsrsfftlOns
which interfere seriously with some
~ their domca ic rotations When
girI is married the mother o. FOR.
eyrr Forbidden io Look upon tho faco
Of her son.lnlaw They must keep
apart under an circumstance An.
other superstition is that they viii
MOI count their sheep Thoy know
each Sheep hy sight. oven whom they
have floCks numbering M high a.
seven hundred when a man is sick.
they say be has had beads shot into
him and the medicine men make a
protouso NJ extracting the beads
THE Navajo rugs are made on n
very simple loom. hung out ~ doors
under q tree The women do the
work There is mo- typical Navajo rug
Each woman makes her own design
They live IN what are called no
gans A D. rpn consists ~ some limbs
NJ cottonwood locked together az the
Top Haze q tepoo. with the cracks plap /
tered up with mud TheNayaios are
poygamous. In the oight years that
Mr. Johnson me missionary. has been
here. not single convert To Christ.
.pnity has been made Hut they have
Mr. Johnson, ana would lay down
their lives for him and I believe that
when they do omhrnco Christianity
hey will make very good Christians
"The HOpl tribe lives up ON tho
side Of great cliff They are
happy ioyIal people Thoy are not
Tho women build the
houses. and tho men do Che weay.
ur
"rho snake dance is ceremony
which makes you wonder N you are
it.ll living Va tho United States ~
America boz mo year 1904 There were
about l5 white men and women there
his yoar Including the Indians. about
700 or 500 people saw the dance. A
1dlo before shutdown. the thirteen
antelope priests came up ont OF the
livaa each carrying a rattle They
march around a large circle. shaking
heir rattlos. Then the snake prlosts
'omc up with their whips There are
wolve Of the snake priests Each Of
ho priests went 20 a little booth az
ne further end Of the plaza and took
rom % poisonous snake Most of
hem were mttlors The probability
q that the fanga or poison sacks of
he reptiles are not extracted They |
simply do not bite those Indians
Probably the Indians know how 90
handle As they came dancing io.
yard us. : noticed that each Indian
lad between his tooth one Of the