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APRIL 19, 1961—THE NAVAJO TIMES—]
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GIC Amateur
Arts and Crafts
During special ceremonies at
the sixth annual Arts and Crafts
Show at the Gallup Indian Commu
nity Center, a large wall mural
painted by Navajo artist Chester
m Kahn, 25, of Lukachukai, Arizona,
was unveiled. The Show will con
tinue through April 22. Covering
the entire east wall of the Cen
ter’s lounge, the mural was paint
ed in eight sections, each section
depicting a different theme of Nav
ajo education from early times to
future hopes.
Two-time winner in the Gallup
show, Kahn signs his paintings “tso
Yazzie”. Kahn has had his work
exhibited at the Santa Fe Art Mus
eum, the Navajo Tribal Fair, the
Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa,
Okla., the Gallup Inter-Tribal In
dian Ceremonial Art Show and
others. Kahn was awarded aßock
e* efeller Foundation scholarship to
the Southwest Indian workshop at
the University of Tucson last sum
mer.
The purpose of the annual arts
and crafts show at the Indian Com
munity Center in Gallup is to en
courage Indian crafts, according to
Herb Blatchford, president of the
center’s board of directors.
Mr. Blatchford, young Navajo
educator, said that recognition of
the craftsmen, opportunities to
learn from the traditions and skills
of the past and present, and ade
quate compensation for their intri
cate and creative talents, are three
important factors in the effort to
preserve and advance high quality
Indian hand crafts.
The New Mexico Federation of
Women’s Clubs, the Navajo Arts
and Crafts Guild and McKinley
County merchants provided the
awards in the amount of S2OO. Many
of the display items will be sold
during the show, with all proceeds
going to the craftsmen.
Classification of the items for
-display is as follows: painting,
s sandpainting, drawing; weaving,
| rug and blanket work; leathercraft;
woodcraft, carpentry; jewelry and
metalwork without stones; lapidary
mounted stones; pottery, carv
ing, needlework.
,• There were three categories
within each division by which the
; items were judged: student, which
! is open to young people under 18;
amateur, which is open to persons
, 18 or older, who do not receive pay
ment for work similar to the entry;
and semi-professional, which is
open to aH contestants not eligible
for the other two categories and
> who in the past twelve months have
not earned more than SSO for their
work similar to their entry.
Items which havewonprize
awards in any previous contests,
were not eligible for prizes in this
show.
Six Mistakes
Os Man
The Roman philosopher and
statesman, Cicero, said it two
thousand years ago, and it’s still
true today. The “six mistakes of
man” are:
1. The delusion that individual
advancement is made by crushing
others.
2. The tendency to worry about
things that cannot be changed or
corrected.
3. Insisting that a thing is im
possible because we cannot accom-
Indian Problems to be Heard
in Chicago June This Year
Anthropologist Sol Tax of the
University of Chicago, said the
problem is that the American In
dian ’’neither sinks nor swims—he
just floats.”
The solu t i o n to the problem,
which has eluded ’’Great White
Fathers” from Washington to Ken
nedy will be tackled for the first
time by the Indians themselves this
spring. Leaders of more than half
a million U. S. Indians will stage
the greatest Redskin invasion of
Chicago since the Fort Dearborn
massacre.
At least 100 Q tribesmen are ex
pected to gather June 13-20 in the
great gray stone council lodges of
the University of Chicago.
Tax hopes it will come up with
an Indian bill of rights to fit the
oldest frontiersman of the new
frontier.
Tax explained that since colon
ial times, the white man has at
tempted to force the Indian to either
disappear or become assimilated
into European civilization. The In
dian did neither. He has retained
his own culture “largely in the
same areas, with some exceptions,
where he originally lived, explained
Tax.
In the 19th Century they called
the Indian the “Vanishing Amer
ican” under the twin assaults of
the white man’s guns and ideas.
But in the 20th Century the Indian
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Candidate Visits
Tribal Leaders
Mr. Morris Udall, attorney of
Tucson Arizona, and brother of
Secretary of the Interior Stewart
Udall, visited the Navajo Reserva
tion, and talked with Tribal Lead
ers recently.
Mr. Udall is campaigning for
election on the Democratic Ticket
to Congress to fill the vacancy
created when his brother was ap
pointed Secretary of the Interior.
The election in Arizona is Tues
day, May 2.
Diplomas for 88
Navajo Students
At Chemawa Oregon 88 Navajo
girls and boys received their dip
lomas from the Chemewa Indian
School. These youths were from
Arizona and New Mexico, both on
and off the Navajo Reservation.
Paul Jones, Chairman of the
Navajo Tribal Council, Window
Rock Arizona, gave the tradition
al address to the graduating class.
150 Alaskan students, in their
first year at the school, observed
the graduation exercises with the
expectations of soon graduating
themselves.
Our congratulations to the fu
ture leaders of the Navajo Tribe
on their graduation.
plish it.
4. Refusing to set aside trivial
preferences.
5. Neglecting development and
refinement of the mind and not ac
quiring the habit of reading and
study.
6. Attempting to compel other
persons to believe and live as we
do.
population began to increase.
Tax said, “Most white men think
it is only a matter of time before
the differences between Indian and
white cultures will end. But there
is no validity to this presumption.”
’’After 350 years of exposure to
the ways of the white man, Tax said,
American Indians remain “at the
bottom of our heap in health, edu
cation, and economic well being.”
“There’s only one thing we have
never tried. Tlie Indians have never
been asked what they think ought
to be done,” he said.
Tax, operating with SIO,OOO of
the university of Chicago’s money
and another sls,ooofrom two foun
dations contacted the National Con
gress of American Indians. The
NCAI, which is not accepted by all
tribes or tribesmen, obliged with a
preliminary draft of a proposed
“charter”. There were 14,000
copies of this “charter” printed
and mailed to leaders of the tribes.
Then the trouble started.
It seemed that too many tribes
had unpl ea sa n t recollections of
previous “charters” made and
broken by the white man.
But with a change of terminol
ogy here and a bit of persuasion
there he managed some degree of
assent from the representatives of
almost all of the tribes in the 44
states which have Indian reserva
tions.
Sherman Vocational Boys Win 30
Awards of Riverside County Fair
Twenty-three boys in the Vocational Department won prizes at the
Annual Riverside County Fair held at Indio, California in February.
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In the above picture, boys from Mr. Daffern’s General Metals Shop,
Mr. Whitfield’s Mill and Cabinet Shop, and Mr. Rhodes’ General Shop
exhibit some of their winning pieces.
Back row from left to right: Albert Tso Begay, Ist place, Bucket, 3rd
place. Sheet Metal Pipe; Bennie Jensen, 4th place. Welded Table; Elton
King, Ist place, Turned Bowl and an Industrial Award; Percy Ramero,
3rd place. Electric Motor; Jack Thomas, Ist place. Funnel and an In
dustrial Award; Leonard Hoskie, 4th place, Kachina Doll; Keith Slender,
4th place, Coal Bucket Ash Tray; Ben Yazzen, Ist place, Bucket and an
Industrial Award; Dennison Woodie, 3rd place, Bucket; Sam Spencer,
Drawing; Jonah Chee, Ist place, Jewelry, and Turned Lamp; Kenneth
Miguel, 2nd place, Electric Motor; Joe Tom Begay, Industrial Award,
Drop Leaf Table; Everett Stone. 3rd place. Tin Cup.
Front row left to right: Ned Begay, Ist place, Electric Door Bell, Nel
son Alfred, Ist place. Desk Set; Wayne Cayaditto, 2nd place, Cam
Shaft; Jimmie Brown, Industrial Award, Welch Cabinet.
Boys who won awards but are not shown in the picture are as
follows: Edgar James, 2nd and 3rd place. Mechanical Drawing; David
Willie, 3rd place. Table; W’illie Mariano, 2nd place, Kitchen Cabinet;
Wilson Begay, 4th place, Coffee Table; Harry Wilson, 2nd place,
Shadow Box.
Road Construction
Progress Report
Two projects are presently
under construction in the Long
House Valley-Marsh Pass area of
Route 1. Three other projects west
of these are still closed down be
cause of cold weather. On the east
end of Route 1, bids will be opened
on the 21st of March on an eighteen
mile project from the end of the
pavement south of Red Mesa to
Walker Creek.
The contract has been awarded
and the contractor is moving in on
the section of road from the Chinle
Wash north of Many Farms to Round
Rock. Bids have been advertised
for three bridges in the Round Rock
area, one near Lukachukai and two
between Round Rock and Rock
Point. Bids will also be advertised
shortly for the construction of the
section of road between Round Rock
and Lukachukai.
Construction is progressing
well on the section of road between
Cottonwood School and Pinon. An
additional contract has been awar
ded and construction is expected
to be started soon the portion be
tween Cottonwood School and the
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project above mentioned. When
completed this will connect Route
8, south of Chinle, and Pinon with
a paved highway. Advertisement
for bids has also been issued on 4j
miles of Route 12 beginning at
Route 3 near Kerrigan’s Store
south to the Hunters Point School.
Field work has been completed
on the survey from Ganadoto
Steamboat. Field and office work
is 65% complete from Ganadoto the
top of the mountain. On Route 1,
from Highway 666 near Slip rock,
to the Arizona State line, center
line has been run and cross-sec
tions partially completed.