Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-03
MOQUIs SUFFER BECAUSE OF
 WHITE MAN
Whole Tribe in Northern Ari- zona Has Influenza, Sur rounded by Filth and Neglect Doctors Helpless.

A dispatch from Phoenix. Arizona, says: Frequent reports have come from the reservation in this territory that the Moki Indians were suffering from an epidemic of influenza which was decimating their villages.
 Notwithstanding the visit of Fran cis B. Leupp, commissioner of Indian affairs, who was an eye witness to these conditions last autumn and again few weeks ago, only two doc tors without hospital facilities or as- sistance, are still y,.fnly attempting to stay the progress of this disease. To most people the term "Moki h. dians" means unly a certain aborigi- nal tribe that performs in August the weird snake dance that Is heralded all over the world as the most blood curdling and gruesome of ceremon- ials."
 The student of ethnology and lover of folklore finds in these gentle ex- lies of the desert the last remnant of the most civilized people that existed among the first inhabitants of this continent.
 The past as well as the present con- dition of the Moki constitutes one of
 
 history that the world has ever seen, and yet a few hundred miles from the plateaus upon which these people live in the heart of the painted des- ert," of Arizona, no one knows, To one cares, about the Moki or his fate.
 On the high and narrow "mesas" table land that resemble the gigantic prows of monster ships riding the ocean of sand, are to be found their villages.
 From the ruins along the way 1t pis quite evident that the peaceful Moki never trekked to these forbid ding table lands from choice. For centurie tillers of the ground have had to fight against the marauding bands of Apaches and Navaos %ho came to steal their flocks, devrstate their crops and enslaye their women.
 For one hundred miles one may fol low the struggling fight of the Moki legion before the advancing hordes of hostile Indians and followers rom mesa to mesa in defense of tneic goods-resisting utter annihilation.
 Their dwellings were made of the same rock as the mesa, rendering them practically invisible on the wedge-like plateaus that were inac- cessible on two sides and fortified on the others. Here they lived, multi piled and died for centuries.
 The question of defense has been paramount in the minds of growing generations, the constant subject of their oral traditions and they have huddled together promiscously.
 The cool weather, the winds blow ing constantly over the mesa and the high, rare atmosphere of the desert, some 5000 feet above the sea level, dried things and kept the Moki in health under his natural conditions. They wore little or no clothing and burned on their open lhearths the most offensive refuge. This was be- fore the advent of the white man.
 Now all that is changed. The white man brought disease. Since his com l ing, smallpox has more than once wrought terrible haoc among these Indians. One can even this day see the bones of it's victims bleaching in the desert sunshine. The people were | too weakened and reduced by the scourge to bury their dead. Since the terrible epidemic of 1900, vaccina- | tion has been introduced and the fear that the unknown disease created in their minds has prevented any fresh outbreak
 Bronchitis, grippe and pneumonia however, have frequently attacked them. Sore eyes are to be found in | every family. For seventeen years the government has annually expend. ed large sums of money for the edu-