The Ordway new era., 1921-07-29
Young Indian For
Pale Face Ways
~ YOUNG EVERGREEN TREE

hail from the southwest trlDe OF Pu-
ohio Indians, formerly called the Cliff
Dwellers. My tribe is the one which
makes pottery or Indian earthenware.
NV tribe is called the .Cochiti
t,ibe" which is an individual name.
There are nineteen tribes of Pueblo
Indians thru New Mexico, all under
that name, and each tribe has All in
diyidual name. We are a self sup
porting people. can not say just
when or how long ago my tribe settl-
ed down at the spot where they now
live. 1t was the early Spanish set
tiers who brought my people down of
the cliff dwellings into the Rio Grarde
valley. Not liking this they went
back to the Clifli,s again. The Span
iards again brought them to the val
lev at which time the Indians realized
what the Spanish meant by doing
this. The Spaniards gave them OK
teams and plows, but the redskin did
not know what to do with them, then
the Spaniardc taught them how to
use the implements. Gradually the
Indian learned ways of farming, l
wish to say they are sientifc farmers
in their own way.
The former home of my tribe call
cd thePajarite Park is about twenty
five or thirty miles west of the city of
on hA plIa1 hX
otage line from Santa Fe.
Following are The chief causes of
degeneration of my tribe and the
others
First. Not being used to living in
towns what | mean is all jammed in
together. They live in adobe houses
much like the Mexicans do in one or
/. two room house and built one next to
the other. You know that if they
were not living III this manner there
would be many more left today.
The houses are right up together, just
d wall between two families. The
whole family sleep or live in one room
only.
face doctor in any kind of epidemic
or desease and cannot over come the
sickness, thus dying rapidly off, be
cause not understanding the sickness
CT each person. The Indian medi-
cine men use flint to operate On per-
4 son. They don't use steel instru-
ments like the "pale-face" doctor.
After this, | pick the doctor with the
up-to-date instruments.
Third. A good many intermarry
among the tribe. which also degener-
ates the tribe, not knowing that they
are doing something in the way OF
marrying cousin to cousin.
| wish to say the younger set is
/ gradually improving. It's the old
heads in the tribes who are keeping
my other younger members back.
They are made to keep the usual In
dian ways when they come home from
school. l am very proud, at this
moment, to think that l have used
good judgment to learn to follow
the white mans ways.
There were about sixteen boys and
girls OF my tribe who went to school
and actually l am the only one who
MAS not returned to tribal ways. l
think the white or "pale-facc" ways
as the Indian says" is about the best.
have learned many things by this
new method.
Here's laugh: Once I sent my
tribe $3.50 worth of choice canta-
lcupe seed from Rocky, Ford, so they
could try to grow some. They sowed
me seed and when doing SO they
broad cast every kind of vine crop
ieed together. When l went home
on visit visited one of the Indians
farms and saw all descriptions of
VINE plants in one field. The high
glass seed-you couldn't tell where it
was planted. His cantaloupes ma
fured well but they tasted hot, chile
peppers at that
What they need now ic a COED
Farmer to show them the new system
Of vine crops.
The Pueblo Indians are the most
friendly Indians of all the North
american Indians.
10 the readers of the New Era,
extend friendly congratulations.
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