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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • State History. Native Americans. Tribes. 1935-07-26


    • Woman leads Navajos

    • 1935

    • Woman leads Navajos. - Mrs. Laura McCabe, at the age of forty-three, is the only woman leader among the 45,000 Navajos in northwestern New Mexico. In addition, the squaw has privileges denied white women in some states.
    • State History. Native Americans. Tribes. 1935-07-26
    • State history. Native Americans. Customs. 1936-10-15. p. 1.


    • Navajos terrorized by an 'Unseen arrow'

    • 1936

    • Navajos terrorized by an 'Unseen arrow'. - Old superstition is revived by slaying after woman's 'Death by curse.' - Fear of the "unseen arrow" is stirring superstitious Navajos after reports of the fatal shooting of a northern reservation brave by...
    • State history. Native Americans. Customs. 1936-10-15. p. 1.
    • State history. Native Americans. Customs. 1936-10-15. p. 2.


    • Navajos terrorized by an 'Unseen arrow'

    • 1936

    • Navajos terrorized by an 'Unseen arrow'. - Old superstition is revived by slaying after woman's 'Death by curse.' - Fear of the "unseen arrow" is stirring superstitious Navajos after reports of the fatal shooting of a northern reservation brave by...
    • State history. Native Americans. Customs. 1936-10-15. p. 2.
    • State history. Native Americans. Customs. 1936-10-15


    • Navajos terrorized by an 'Unseen arrow'

    • 1936

    • Navajos terrorized by an 'Unseen arrow'. - Old superstition is revived by slaying after woman's 'Death by curse.' - Fear of the "unseen arrow" is stirring superstitious Navajos after reports of the fatal shooting of a northern reservation brave by...
    • State history. Native Americans. Customs. 1936-10-15
    • State history. Native Americans. Reservations. 1928-11-07


    • Indians regain old army post

    • 1928

    • Indians regain old army post. - Fort Wingate, New Mexico, 66 years military reservation, goes back to Navajos. - After holding title to Fort Wingate, New Mexico, for more than 66 years, the United States army has given the military reservation back...
    • State history. Native Americans. Reservations. 1928-11-07
    • State history. Native Americans. Schools. 1937-02-28


    • Teach Indians own language

    • 1937

    • Teach Indians own language. - Uncle Sam wants Navajos to learn how to use alphabet. - The United States office of Indian affairs has embarked on teaching the Indian language to the Navajos.
    • State history. Native Americans. Schools. 1937-02-28
    • State history. Native Americans. Weather conditions. 1937-01-02


    • Indians devour horses in need

    • 1937

    • Indians devour horses in need. - 350 Navajos, pinon nut hunters, caught in mountain blizzard. - Out of the Zuni Mountains into the little trading post of Ramah, fifty-three miles southwest of here, stumbled three half-starved and exhausted Indians...
    • State history. Native Americans. Weather conditions. 1937-01-02
    • State history. Native Americans. Indian Affairs. 1935-08-01


    • Navajos may move to new territory

    • 1935

    • Navajos may move to new territory. - A planned migration of Navajo Indians from their homes on the barren, windswept plateaus of New Mexico, northern Arizona and southern Utah under consideration by the Indian affairs bureau.
    • State history. Native Americans. Indian Affairs. 1935-08-01
    • State history. Native Americans. Agriculture. 1935-06-02


    • Navajos lend hand on soil erosion plan

    • 1935

    • Navajos lend hand on soil erosion plan. - Several bureaus of the government as well as state universities and colleges and individuals are cooperating with soil erosion service in formulating and carrying out a definite program on which the working...
    • State history. Native Americans. Agriculture. 1935-06-02
    • State history. Native Americans. Education. 1936-05-17


    • Lewiston orchards girl, teacher among Navajos, tells of Indians' crude customs and superstitions

    • 1936

    • Lewiston orchards girl, teacher among Navajos, tells of Indians' crude customs and superstitions. - Miss Dorothy Robel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Robel, of Lewiston Orchards, is teacher in a Navajo Indian school at Ganada, Ariz. At the recent...
    • State history. Native Americans. Education. 1936-05-17
    • State history. Native Americans. Education. 1935-05-17


    • Lewiston orchards girl, teacher among Navajos, tells of Indians' crude customs and superstitions

    • 1936

    • Lewiston orchards girl, teacher among Navajos, tells of Indians' crude customs and superstitions. - Miss Dorothy Robel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Robel, of Lewiston Orchards, is teacher in a Navajo Indian school at Ganada, Ariz. At the recent...
    • State history. Native Americans. Education. 1935-05-17
    • State history. Native Americans. Education. 1936-05-17


    • Lewiston orchards girl, teacher among Navajos, tells of Indians' crude customs and superstitions

    • 1936

    • Lewiston orchards girl, teacher among Navajos, tells of Indians' crude customs and superstitions. - Miss Dorothy Robel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Robel, of Lewiston Orchards, is teacher in a Navajo Indian school at Ganada, Ariz. At the recent...
    • State history. Native Americans. Education. 1936-05-17
    • State history. Native Americans. Photographs. 1936-09-20


    • The symbols woven in Navajo blankets

    • 1936

    • The symbols woven in Navajo blankets. - A trio of squaws wrapped in their native blankets and enjoying a bit of gossip concerning other members of their tribe. - The world at large thinks that the Navajos are blankets, but in New Mexico the fact is...
    • State history. Native Americans. Photographs. 1936-09-20
    • State history. Native Americans. Weather conditions. 1937-01-02


    • Hundreds facing hunger in storm

    • 1937

    • Hundreds facing hunger in storm. - Out of the Zuni Mountains into the little trading post of Ramah, fifty-three miles southwest of here, stumbled three half-starved and exhausted Indians late today to report that approximately 350 Navajos were...
    • State history. Native Americans. Weather conditions. 1937-01-02
    • State history. Native Americans. Weather conditions. 1937-01-02


    • Hundreds facing hunger in storm

    • 1937

    • Hundreds facing hunger in storm. - Out of the Zuni Mountains into the little trading post of Ramah, fifty-three miles southwest of here, stumbled three half-starved and exhausted Indians late today to report that approximately 350 Navajos were...
    • State history. Native Americans. Weather conditions. 1937-01-02
    • State history. Native Americans. Weather conditions. 1937-01-05


    • Truch reaches starving Indians; rescues eleven

    • 1937

    • Truch reaches starving Indians; rescues eleven. - Weary Indian Service workers pressed back today into Western New Mexico's "bad lands" to complete the rescue of an isolated band of near-starving, snow-bound Navajos.
    • State history. Native Americans. Weather conditions. 1937-01-05
    • State history. Native Americans. Weather conditions. 1937-02-01


    • Drifts impede efforts to rescue snowbound Indians

    • 1937

    • Drifts impede efforts to rescue snowbound Indians. - Supply trucks moved slowly out of Zuni behind a snow-plow today as the United States Indian Service sought to rescue more than three hundred hungry, cold-benumbed, snowbound Navajos from the...
    • State history. Native Americans. Weather conditions. 1937-02-01
    • State history. Native Americans. Contests. 1936-05-20


    • Sleeping Indian baby wins award in Flagstaff's special beauty contest

    • 1936

    • Sleeping Indian baby wins award in Flagstaff's special beauty contest. - The Indians used a little diplomacy in the bay contest at the annual southwestern pow-wow at Flagstaff, Ariz. Of the 40 papooses entered all but one were Navajos, and the...
    • State history. Native Americans. Contests. 1936-05-20

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