TIIK OLDEST TOWX IX AMERICA AM) ITS PEOPLE 



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Such trenuMidously tenacious const-r- are merely indiii'erent to ourselves. All 



vatism has kept the Zuhi substantially that e\-ery Zuni asks is that he should be 



where they were before (\ilumbus dis- left alone to support himself, to practice 



covered America. They are not hostile his religion, and to live his life as his 



to Americans, in fact their nati^•e code fathers did, without interfering with any 



of politeness requires that every one one and without being interfered with, 



should be treated witli courtesy. They It is no wonder then that these 



The Zuni are tenaciously conservative. The Zuni Indian even today reckons time by the number of days to 

 the next ceremonial dance. All that any member of the tribe asks is that he should be left alone to practice his reli- 

 gion and live his life as his fathers did. On the relaxation of Spanish and Mexican authority the tribe reverted 

 openly to the ancient native ceremonials, which had been kept alive secretly in hidden underground chambers 



