American Indians : first families of the Southwest . feeling for them can beone of nothing less than admiration. They had to build their homes on mountaintops for protection against marauders. Their fields, at times miles away and poorenough in themselves, gave forth very scanty crops unless water was led to quest for fuel meant a journey far from the little fortress of a home on themesa. The illustration shows one of these fuel trains homeward bound. Theburros are laden with bits of cedar and pinon, gathered miles away. Notice thesturdy, businesslike stride of the man in white—it is
American Indians : first families of the Southwest . feeling for them can beone of nothing less than admiration. They had to build their homes on mountaintops for protection against marauders. Their fields, at times miles away and poorenough in themselves, gave forth very scanty crops unless water was led to quest for fuel meant a journey far from the little fortress of a home on themesa. The illustration shows one of these fuel trains homeward bound. Theburros are laden with bits of cedar and pinon, gathered miles away. Notice thesturdy, businesslike stride of the man in white—it is one not popularly associatedwith the Indian. In the distance, on the very top of the mountain, the angularoutlines of the village appear. Shortly the sure-footed little burros will be clamber-ing up the steep path and the women and children will stack the wood away to beused in the ovens and fireplaces in the cold days. Gathering wood is one of themain occupations of the Hopi between the time of planting and harvesting. Digitized by IVIicrosoft®. INDIAN WOOD TRAIN ON THE ARIZONA DESERT Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Their Name Came From a King of France Back in 1798 the Franciscan fathers established a mission in what is now SanDiego County, California, and named it the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, forSaint Louis, King of France. Great numbers of peaceful Indians lived nearbyand on the day of the founding fifty-four natives were baptized. The Indianswere willing to work and within a few years they aided in the erection of a group ofmission buildings and by 1820 they had thousands of head of cattle and greatcultivated farms. At its highest prosperity, in 1826, the mission had almost3,000 Indian believers. The lands gradually passed into secular control and theMexican governor sold the last of the mission buildings and acres in 1846 for lessthan $3,000. When the Americans under Fremont took California the title to themission church and immediate grounds was declared to be in t
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