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TINY WARRIORS OF THF PKACFFUI, PEOPLE 



© Frederick I. Monsen 

 ARIZONA 



These Hopi youngsters are "children of the sun"' in a double sense. They are dedicated 

 to that luminary deity by their parents, and are completely exposed to its penetrating desert 

 rays until they are well in their 'teens. As their name signifies, the Hopi Indians are 

 pacific; but they are far from being pacifists. Their "standing army" consists of a clan in 

 which every mother raises her son to be a warrior, just as certain other clans are entrusted 

 with the perpetuation of the Snake Dance and similar customs. The extinct Chaco Canyon 

 pueblo people (see "A New National Geographic Society Expedition," pages 637 to 643) may 

 have had an even more complex social organization, for they dwelt in apartment-houses com- 

 pared to which many pueblo dwellings are but groups of cottages. 



