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clothing. Archie joined these, and entered in- 

 to conversation with them. They spoke Eng- 

 hsh; they had been at non-reservation schools; 

 they were doing well as farmers and citizens. 

 One and all they asserted that, in order to 

 prosper in after life, it was necessary for the 

 Indian to get away to a non-reservation school; 

 that merely to go to an agency school was 

 not enough in any community which was on 

 the highroad of progress; and that they in- 

 tended to send their own children for a couple 

 of years to an agency school and then to a non- 

 reserva^tion school. They looked at the cere- 

 monial religious dances of their fathers pre- 

 cisely as the whites did; they were in ejffect 

 Christians, although not connected with any 

 specific church. They represented substantial 

 success in the effort to raise the Indian to the 

 level of the white man. In their case it was 

 not necessary to push them toward forgetful- 

 ness of their past. They were travelling away 

 from it naturally, and of their own accord. As 

 their type becomes dominant the snake-dance 

 and antelope -dance will disappear, the Hopi 

 religious myths will become memories, and the 

 Hopis w^ill live in villages on the mesa tops, or 

 scattered out on the plains, as their several in- 

 clinations point, just as if they were so many 



