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to be educated, but invariably they return to 

 the old life and old superstitions — those of them 

 who do not die of tuberculosis, and a large per- 

 centage of those taken away do contract it. 

 One of these Indians educated in an Eastern 

 school lives in the Hopi village near Tuba. In 

 discussing the banishment of a missionary from 

 another Hopi village the year before, he re- 

 marked in all seriousness: 



"The missionary attempted to stop our peo- 

 ple holding the rain dance. Without the dance 

 there would be no rain, the corn crop would be 

 a failure, and the people would starve. What 

 could they do but drive the missionary away? 

 They were quite right." 



This Indian, in spite of his Eastern education 

 and Christian teaching, had never swerved from 

 his absolute faith in the kachinas and their 

 powers. 



Though the Hopi and the Navajo Indians 

 live side by side, they belong to different lin- 

 guistic families and are quite dissimilar in 

 customs, habits of life, and religious beliefs. 

 The former belong to the Shoshonean; the lat- 

 ter, like the Apaches, to the great Athapascan 

 family. They differ also in physical appear- 

 ance, though the Navajo type is less definite 

 and pronounced than the Hopi. Indeed it may 



