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new technology, except for the remote 
arcana of pursuits ethnological, was 
essentially sounding brass in his land. 
“You have a finger-writing machine 
and a finger watch and you give many 
little fiestas, but would it not be much 
better for you if your eyes were not 
clouded?” 
The multilevel campaign of the 
Mexican government to integrate Chi- 
nantec and other indigenous ethnic 
communities into the national culture 
has intensified since 1964. The influ- 
ence of what the Mexican media often 
call “that powerful gentleman, Don 
Petroleo,” has probably caused a geo- 
metric acceleration of the scope and 
magnitude of this effort. 
Seventeen years ago an elderly blind 
musician and pungent raconteur told 
me that “a dry trail would bring you 
anything.” Now the widest of Yoleno 
trails has been converted into a dirt 
road that can carry the hardiest of 
motor vehicles into the administrative 
and commercial heart of the high vil- 
lage even in the time of summer rain, 
despite the several arroyos it must 
cross. Almost a half dozen of those 
who eat best own motorized vehicles. 
The twenty-four men who take their 
seats and ceremonial staffs after All 
Saints’ Day to govern the municipality 
meet in a new Municipal Palace. In 
this imposing, soon to be two-story 
administrative “House of Authority” 
there is very serious talk of driving 
a road through to the tropical down- 
slope hamlets. At this writing, neither 
the internal combustion engine nor 
things electric are present in these ran- 
chos. Their relative inaccessibility 
makes of these hamlets a kind of ref- 
uge area where the shadow of that 
insolence that often characterizes 
mountaineers still lingers. When the 
region’s agricultural wealth is trans- 
portable by mechanical rather than 
animal or human exertion, when the 
tumpline and muleback have lost their 
dominion, the pace of innovation and 
integration will quicken definitively. 
The three-room elementary school 
has been replaced by a thirteen-room 
educational plant with dormitory, la- 
trines, and facilities for providing 
meals. Substantially freed from the 
often prohibitive costs of maintaining 
a very young child in the high village, 
many parents are willing, indeed anx- 
ious, to comply with compulsory edu- 
cation. For these children there will 
not be the same inferences of a nec- 
essary separation between education 
and culture because now Chinantec, 
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