Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-08-27

Whlcn Cnulu immediately provide |
homes for twenty or thirty thousand |
homeless white people white the Ne
vaio Is away on the white mans pub |
lic domain. hcrding his sheep. and |
keeping other white men from maxi !
Ing living there
Then take the great Wide valleys |
md stretches Of plains an over tho
reservation, aRgregnting some 1000. !
600 acres Of good level land. which |
the Post writer desiEnates ns desert |
Certainly Il ~ desert. and Will re- |
main so as long as its development |
" prevented, but II ~ just the same |
Kind OF desert that the thrifty west !
erncr has had To deal with since he /
first began to settle between west.
crn Kansas and the coast II IL not |
one whit more of q desert than al |
the rest of the southwest n ~ not !
az hard to turn into producing land /
as most at the southwest has been, |
for only q few feet under tho sur |
face n plenty OF good water. which |
can be- cheaply raised by modern /
pumping methods and applied hy /
each man independently. thus build |
INK up communities 81 prosperous |
and industrious people Give every |
settler with an average family 100 /
acres of this land and there would /
be room for over 90. coo more pco-
pie. The Post informant would hold /
this as well nv the valley land for !
the man of nomadic habits aud ut /
the same time use every means pos
sblo to 20 of the reservation and re-
ccivc additional lands and aUotmonts
on the public domain where the
agents of the Indian department lo-
cate him on the ana surrounding the
springs ana water holes, with the cx-
pressed intention ct thereby shutting [
out the white settler and hcrdsmau.
throughout another tract at country
half as large az tho reservation itself
The claim that the reservation
lands ana the lands ON which the 80.
lutmsngI have been made are not suit
able for white settlers is advanced by
two kinds OF people the urst are
those who know that this reserved
territory is just the average uf the
southwest but who for personal rrn
SONS ar prejudice misrcpfcsont th,
facts to the second class which is
made NJ Of those who believe the
first because their cupdity exceeds
their Intelligence,
The Post writer tries to show that
This question h exceedingly complies
nnd needs special treatment because
the Nhyuios are So different from any /
othr people under the sun. a." ar
rivcs ut this conclusion because he /
proceeds Ia assume az truths lot of |
things about the NRyaios that are not |
facts AT an. he calls the navajo "a /
hcrdsman by instinct" which comes
about as near being pure rot as
anything We have recently seen pub
lishcd. The Navajo rs a hcrdsmuu |
| by adoption, purely. The bulk OF the |
cattle sheep ana horses he now has |
are the descendants of the many thuu-
sands OF head of each which Uncle /
Sam issued To- him between 1859 and /
/ $50, as attosted Boy the government /
records. what stock the navajo had !
before that was limited ana was ob- (,
luined solely hay trade or theft from 1
| the Mexican settlements Before that |
1.-THE Navajo had no stock at AN so far |
as any student OF Indians has been |
able to discover. lie made his living |
then before the advent OF the palcf1co
Ihy agriculture ana the chase, ana he |
/ is just as we'll prepared today Co adapt /
himself 90 farming as he is Co sheep |
raising. H. fact he h perfectly able /
with little assistance along the limo
/ OF developing his land or rang" Co do |
either and he does not need any more |
acres To do u than his white neigh
Ihor
The Navajo question instead or bee !
ing serious problem n NO problem
at all, II Is simply case that needs
intelligent action. Provide Irrigation
Tor those who desire 10 settle In the
valleys and wells for water for the
others. and give them the same range
privileges the white man enjoys, and
open the rest Of the reservation Co
settlement charging the homrsteader,
IL necessary. :or his land and using
capital thus derived Co develop The
adjoining tract of his navajo neigh
hor and there viii be no navajo qucs.
tiun whatever.
The question Is the stupidity and
proCrastination OF the Indian depart
mcnt and the studied. intentional,
prejudiced Misrepresentation OF the
Indian Rights societies, the members
of which undertake 20 show that the
white ncighbor OF the Indian is trying
90 KIN ana rob him when the fact is
the white people on every side OF the
reservation have the trust ana conf
dnce of the Navajo and regard his
improvement and prosperity as vitality
important To the country. while the
higotcd poser who assumes role
he In elomcntally disqualified for and
rulisis 10 find wrong where none
exists has the respect of neither the
navajo nor white man