White] THE PUEBLO OF SIA, NEW MEXICO 61 
Government, through whom provisions and medicines were distrib- 
uted, she devoted herself to the welfare of these people with a 
single-mindedness and an utter disregard of self rarely equaled, never 
surpassed. Jam happy to state that she has almost entirely recovered 
the use of her eyes. . . .”’ (ibid.). 
And there have been others like her. The teacher at Sia in 1903-4 
had been there for several years. ‘She is not only a teacher,” the 
Indian Agent reported, “but sort of an adviser for the pueblo... 
helpful in many ways to these poor Indians’? (Rep. Comm. Indian 
Aff. for 1903, p. 221, and for 1904, p. 262). It is impossible to gage 
the influence of women like this upon the course of culture change, 
but we may well believe that it has been appreciable. Many teachers 
are remembered in the pueblo with affection and respect. 
