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THE NAVAJO TIMES MARCH, 1961
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Hardy Wins
Achievement Award
ANADARKO, OKLA. A Na
vajo student from Fort Defiance,
Ariz., has won the Student of the
Month honors at the Riverside In
dian School for the niontn of Jan
uary 1961.
Joe C. Ifardy, a junior ai.i son
•f Mr. and Mrs. John Kaidy,
Crystal Trading Post, has won out
standing academic and social
achievement honors at the Okla
homa school for the past month.
Mr. Hardy won the honors over
15 other leading students nomin
ated for the highly recognized
award. This is a Student Council
and faculty sponsored leadership
activity. Joe won the award in
the fields of cooperation, citizen
ship. scholastic standing, attitude
and his interest in promoting high
er social and academic standards
a! Riverside.
During the time Joe has been
attending Riverside he has been
an active leader in his class of
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Mrs. Jessie Begay Smith
The
Merchants Bank
“GALLUP’S OLDEST”
Established in 1916—Member F.D.i.C.
Announcing A New Service To Its
Many Customers —
TRUST DEPARTMENT
200 W. Aztec Ave. Uptown Plaza
Gallup,N. Mex. 1116 E. 66 Ave.
JOE C. HARDY
fices, cottage living, campus clubs
and is the leader of the Annual
Year Book staff.
The cash prize of $3 and a wrist
watch was presented to Joe by
his class sponsor. Miss Nezzie L.
Leathers. Joe gave several words
of encouragement to the student
body and requested that all stu
dents try for the most coveted
award.
New
T eachers
Mrs. Smith is a native of the
Shiprock area. Beclabito was her
home. She now teaches in the
Shiprock Boarding School.
Mrs. Smith attended Beclabito
Day School one year, then trans
ferred to Shiprock where she com
pleted the sixth grade. She then
attended Ignacio Indian School for
two years, and finished her high
school work at Fori Wingate. She
holds a B. S. Degree in Eel
mentary Educatioon from Arizona
State College at Flagstaff.
Mrs. Smith is married to Evans
Smith, Jr., also a native of Ship
rock. They have two small daugh
ters.
Shiprock Area welcomes another
one of it’s native daughters into
the education field.
CROWNPOINT BOARDING
SCHOOL HAS NEW PRICIPAL
Mr. Leroy Falling, who served
as Assistant to the Director of
Schools for the past two years,
has accepted the position of Prin
cipal of the Crownpoint Boarding
School.
Fourth Annual Navajo
Education Conference
Mite* V. Zintz
Associate Professor of Ec’aication
University of New Mexico
The Education Committee of the
Navajo Tribe, especially Dillon
Platero, Chairman, is deserving of
high praise for the very successful
fourth annual conference on edu
cation just completed on the Uni
versity of New Mexico campus in
Albuquerque. The work done on
the appropriate theme of teach
ing English to Navajo students
may represent a kind of “break
through” to some greater efforts
in meeting this problem.
Hildegard Thompson, Chief of
the Branch of Education, Bureau
of Indian Affairs, set the tenor
of the conference thinking with
Unions, to Invade
Reservation Land
The way was clear today for
the National Labor Relations
Board to invade the ancient tribal
lands of the Navajo Indians.
The U. S. Court of Appeals has
rejected requests by Navajo chiefs
to block an NLRB union repre
sentation election at a uranium
plant on the tribe’s reservation
near Mexican Hat. Utah.
An NLRB spokesman said the
board now would arrange for bal
loting to see if the workers at the
Texas-Zinc Minerals Corp., mill
want to be represented by the
United Steelworkers Union.
The Navajo Tribal Council op
posed the union's campaign in the
courts after forbidding organizers
to set foot on the 25,000 square
mile reservation.
Steelworkers attorneys argued
that employes at the plant, which
processes uranium ore for the
Atomic Energy Commission,
should be subject to U. S. law.
NAVAJO ARTS AND
CRAFTS GUILD
A Tribal Owned Enterprise To Perpetuate The
Making Os Fine Handicrafts For Discriminating
Buyers
Nav^ ; o Rugs
Wrought and Rock Cast
Silver Jewelry-Navajo Moccasins
Original Paintings
MADE BY NAVAJOS ON THE RESERVATION
• Visitors Welcome • Open All Year
BE SURE TO VISIT—
NAVAJO TRIBAL
FAIR GROUNDS
. Window Rock, Arizona
SOON TO BE MOVED TO A NEW HOME
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her address on opening doors to
Navajo young people through edu
cation. Dr. Virginia Allen, Teach
ers College, Columbia University,
zeroed in on teaching English by
presenting an excellent overview
of the whole problem of how to
teach English as a second lang
uage.
Robert Young’s contrast of the
sound systems of English and Na
vajo presented informally to each
of the six study groups demon
strated convincingly the need for
each teacher of Navajo children
to know something of compara
tive linguistics.
The demonstrations by Mrs. Ton
ita Dailey and Mrs. Eva Samples
at the Albuquerque Indian School
and Dr. Frank Angel’s presenta-
not tribal codes, when it came to
industrial relations.
The NLRB agreed but an elec
tion order was delayed by the
Indian’s challenge to the legality
of an election order.
A year ago, the NLRB found
there were 87 employes at the
Mexican Hat mill—47 Navajos and
i 48 non-Indians.
“If the Indians are entitled to
vote for Sen. (Barry) Gold water
(R.-Ariz.) they’re entitled to vote
for a union, “said steelworkers’
lawyer David E. Feller.
The U. S. District Court agreed
and the appeals court also sided
with the union in a recent order.
But the Navajos still are on the
warpath. Their lawyers have in
dicated the tribal chiefs would not
be satisfied until the Supreme
Court rules on what the Navajos
consider an unwarranted applica
tion of paleface law.
tion of promising practices point
ed up real needs for both the
continual practice in speaking
English in meaningful situations
throughout the school day and the
establishment of formal lessons in
how to speak the language cor
rectly.
By the end of the conference,
this writer felt that four special
needs of teachers had been em
phasized for teachers of Navajo
children.
Much attention does need to be
given to seeing that these chil
dren’s basic psychological needs
are adequately met. These chil
dren need recognition, response
from others, a feeling of belong
ing. and love and acceptance from
their teachers, but these needs
are not special since all children,
need and deserve these.
The four special needs empha
sized by The conference are:
1. An understanding and appre
ciation of the cultural heritage of
the child;
2. Some understanding and ap
preciation of the differences in the
systems of the Navajo and Eng
lish languages;
3. Specific knowledge of how to
proceed with formal lessons in
how to teach English as a second
language;
4. An acceptance of the fact
that now Navajos, on the average,
are severely educationally retard
ed, and knowledge of bow to over
come this handicap through re
medial instruction is imperative.
Indian Work Labeled
When you see a piece of Indian
jewelry or a rug for sale in a
Colorado store now, you can be
sure it’s genuine.
If it isn’t, it has to bear a
tag saying it’s imitation.
Gov. Steve McNichols signed
yesterday a legislative act de
signed to protect both the Indian
craftsmen of the nation and tour
ists. It became effective upon sig
nature.