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Ray Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Hyde, Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Kerley, 

 Miles Hedrick, Sam Drolet, and H. T. Donald. 



My fellow White residents of Slionto community have been the 

 finest kind of neighbors, and remain among my closest personal 

 friends. Among these are Mr. and Mrs. Foy L. Young, Mr. and Mrs. 

 John A. Aubuchon, Arthur H. Wliite, Eddie Thompson, and Gloria 

 Jones. 



I am especially indebted to a few of the outstanding Navaho per- 

 sonalities at Shonto for their special contributions to my work and 

 to my insight into the "Navaho mind." Individuals who, if they 

 knew any English, might or might not recognize themselves in the 

 pages which follow are Dick Brown, Bob Black, Pipeline, Jerry Salt, 

 Joe Eeese, Greenstone, Mike Calamity, Sam Edgewater, Dan Cly, 

 Percy Shootinglady, John Manheimer, Jim Teamster, Hubert 

 Laughter, and Beshii. Notable among the weaker sex are Nancy 

 Fuller, Mary Black, Delia Calamity, Ruth Adakai, Janet Talker, 

 Helen Hudgens, and Fanny Blackgoat. 



I have several educated Navaho friends, whom I admire for their 

 ability to move freely and with confidence in two worlds. Among 

 these in particular are Dana Natani Begay, Rudolph Russel, John D. 

 Wallace, Howard Hawthorne, Leigh Hubbard, and Bert Tallsalt. 

 All of them have also given me insights into the "Navaho mind." I 

 have a strong conviction that if there is any enduring collective future 

 for the Navaho people, it lies in the hands of men such as these. 



Government officials at Window Rock and elsewhere whose friend- 

 ship as well as whose information I have valued are Robert W. Young, 

 Howard Johnson, Rudolph Zweifel, Jack South, Gene Ellison, and 

 Lisbeth Eubank. From my youth I also remember with affection the 

 Fred W. Croxen family, and my recent reacquaintance with the entire 

 family has done much to refresh my memory of conditions on the 

 Navaho Reservation as they existed 20 years ago. 



Throughout the years when I lived and worked in the Shonto area, 

 I have maintained close and cordial relations with the Museum of 

 Northern Arizona in Flagstaff. I should like to express my apprecia- 

 tion not only of the museum as an institution, but also and par- 

 ticularly for the friendship, hospitality, and stimulation which I 

 have received from individual members of the staff. Outstanding 

 among these have been the director, Harold S. Colton, as well as 

 Mrs. Colton, and Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm F. Farmer. 



In the academic world I am conscious of an incalculable collective 

 obligation to the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at the 

 University of Arizona, and of a pride in my association with them. 

 To Dr. Emil W. Haury, chairman of the Department, I am in- 

 debted for his encouragement and optimism at every phase 

 of my career at the University of Arizona. My greatest intellectual 



