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wmjlF&yrtr.iuv'rVT?f- w , -viTirsrwts?rvifr-,) ty-w, -"TirpFFao 'fi'5'By,,r'yt 225 The Indian Advocate. raent; on the other, citizens. It has been beyond me so far to draw the line where the one leaves off and the other begins. The Indians are sup posed to be amenable to the Territorial courts and have the same protection from the same accorded to the other citizens, but I fear they fail to get it; they are treated as legitimate prey and have little show in the lower courts. These Indians, like so many others, have had citizenship thrust upon them when they are so fearfully unprepared for it. The schools have been quite successful, notwithstanding the fact that the attendance was not what it should have been. It is expected to mate rially increase the attendance if pupils can be found. The children have enjoyed exceptionally good health, and there is every reason to believe that the ensuing session will be productive of even better results than the last. This has been a splendid crop season throughout the Territory. The agency farm has yielded a sufficient amount of forage to subsist all the stock, and will have enough to sell to materially assist in keeping up the ex penses of the agency in the way of farming implements, wagons, horses, etc. There have been harvested 6,000 bushels of wheat, 6,000 bushels of oats, 150 bushels of rye, 5,000 bushels of corn, and 150 tons of hay. THE NAVAHO RESERVATION. I'.V COSMOS MINDELEFF. The Navaho reservation comprises an extensive area in the extreme northeastern part of Aiizona and the northwest ern corner of New Mexico. The total area is over 11,000 square miles, of which about 650 square miles are in New Mexico; but it would be difficult to find a region of equal size and with an equal population where so large a proportion ofc the land is so nearly worthless. This condition has had an important effect on the people and their arts, and espe cially on their houses. The region may be roughly characterized as a vast sandy plain, arid in the extreme; or rather as two such plains, sep arated by a chain of mountains running northwest and south east. In (he southern part of the reservation this mountain