THE HOPI SNAKE-DANCE 83 



white men. It is to be hoped that the art, the 

 music, the poetry of their elders will be pre 

 served during the change coming over the 

 younger generation. 



On my return from this dance I met two of 

 the best Indian agents in the entire service. 

 The first was Mr. Parquette, a Wisconsin man, 

 himself part Indian by blood. The other was 

 Mr. Shelton, who has done more for the Nava- 

 jos than any other living man. He has sternly 

 put down the criminal element exactly as he 

 has toiled for and raised the decent Indians and 

 protected them against criminal whites; more 

 over, he has actually reformed these Indian 

 criminals, so that they are now themselves 

 decent people and his fast friends; while the 

 mass of the Indians recognize him as their 

 leader who has rendered them incalculable 

 services. He has got the Indians themselves 

 to put an absolute stop to gambling, whiskey- 

 drinking, and sexual immorality. His annual 

 agricultural fair is one of the features of Navajo 

 life, and is of far-reaching educational value. 

 Yet this exceptionally upright and efficient 

 public servant, who has done such great and 

 lasting good to the Indians, was for years the 

 object of attack by certain Eastern philan 

 thropic associations, simply because he warred 



