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are decreasing, excepting the Navajos, who 

 are increasing rapidly, the White River Agency- 

 Indians prove a decided exception to the rule. 



This increase is not the result of accessions 

 from other agencies or reservations, but the nat- 

 ural excess of births over deaths and is doubt- 

 less largely, if not wholly, due to the fact that 

 the Indians here live practically in the open, 

 still clinging to their old-time hogans for such 

 shelter from the elements as they require — habi- 

 tations that permit always of free circulation of 

 air. When the time comes, as it doubtless will 

 sooner or later, when they adopt the white man's 

 closed cabin, tubercular infection will come to 

 carry them off, as in the case of so many of the 

 other tribes. Our overzealous and paternal gov- 

 ernment has in some instances endeavored to 

 "raise" the Indian to this level of civilization, 

 and where, under this paternal direction, the 

 Indians have abandoned their wigwams for 

 cabins, tuberculosis has, as a matter of course, 

 developed to kill them off rapidly. 



In southern Utah the government once built 

 some cottages for Paiutes, at considerable ex- 

 pense. This was doubtless with the object not 

 only of sheltering the poor, unhoused savage 

 from pitiless winter blasts, and thus proving to 

 him by concrete example the superiority in com- 



