THE NAVAJO TIMES August 22, 1962

All-Indian Championship RodeoOne of Top Features of Fair

The annual Navajo Tribal Fairheld at Window Rock, Arizona eachSeptember is becoming bigger andbetter all the time. This is becausethe fair has had to keep pace withthe ever widening scope of Tribalactivities and here is the display

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see what the tourists buy. They buystuff that is made to sell to tour-ists. They cannot afford to buvtraditional arts and crafts, whichtake too long to make and cost toomuch to buy.

“A potter’s wheel, an electrickiln, commercial glazes and thingsthey will use at the institute ofAmerican Indian Art are not Indianarts and crafts. They are not partot Indian culture and tradition, notmade in the spirit of the Indianreligion. This is not freedom; thisis slavery to modern machinery.This is in imitation of the whiteman's culture. This is no oppor-tunity for greatness.

“Dr. Boyce said we have enoughunemployed wheelbarrow pushersaround. Yes, we have too many.That is why we need vocationaltraining, so our young people canlearn how to do things and get jobsso they can support their families.

“The teachers at the Santa FeIndian School said that Dr. Boycetold them that he would not try/ toget jobs for those who graduatefrom the Institute. ‘After the stu-dents graduate here we will notfind a job for them.’ he said; ‘theycon always find a job washing cars.’

“The Institute is to take onlya few, the ‘arts elite,' So what goodis it? Wasting a lot of money andspace that should be used to helpIndians get an education and thenhave to wash cars when theygraduate!

“There are thousands of Indianchildren who have no school. Thelevel of Indian education is the fifthgrade, while the while man's is thetenth. Is this right? Is this gettingthe Indian ready for the Space Age?

“Indian students can take artcourses on Bureau scholarships atthe University of New Mexico anda hundred other schools. That'swhat Joe H. Herrera and other out -

area where all can learn what isgoing on in every part of Navajo-land.

To head the big entertainmentfield at the 16th annual fair, theTribal Fair Rodeo Committee isvery busy preparing for the stag-

standing artists did. And the samewith architecture and music. Asfur ballet, you don't wait until highschool to teach ballet, they tell me.You must start young. That is whyour Indian children begin to learntraditional dances when they arefour years old.

“Those who have talent can gettraining and the kind of schoolingthey need anywhere. There is aNavajo boy at the Harvard GraduateSchool of Anthropology. There isa Pueblo with a doctor’s degreeteaching at the University of Ari-zona. A Pueblo boy is in his lastyear of medical school. AnotherPueblo boy is now in Washingtonhelping a lawyer present a landclaim before the Indian ClaimsCommission. There are Indiandoctors and dentists.

“When school starts—l meancollege—there will he 24 Indianstudents studying Art, 199 takingbusiness courses, 13 studyingMedicine and four Dentistry; 78are in Engineering, 111 in Educa-tion, 47 in Nursing and 152 takingvocational courses. Only two aretaking Music and none are studyingArchitecture or Ballet. They arejust not interested.

“Last spring a survey of 300Indian high school seniors showedonly two interested in the Instituteof American Indian Art.

“We are not mad at anybody.We are only fighting for our rightto an education so we can earn aliving. We are glad for Navajos,Apaches and other tribes to sendtheir children to the Santa FeIndian School, but we are sorry thatmany Pueblo children are turnedaway.

“I am told that a report fromthe Callup Area Office shows thereare 714 Indian students from thisarea in higher education. All but45 of these are Navajos and Pueb-los. The Navajos have 513 and thePueblos, with one-fourth the Navajopopulation, have 156. But there arethousands who have no school atall, while millions of dollars andclassroom space for hundreds of

ing cf the three-day All-IndianChampionship Rodeo as the mainfeature attraction. After staging

the Spring Roundup All-Indian Ro-deo in Early June which starts the

rodeo season on the Navajo Reser-vation, the committee had beenmeeting during July and August to

bring together the best and latestmaterial that will form the basisfor the production of the fair rodeoon September 7,8, and 9.

The big Tribal Rodeo groundsand facilities will be completelyre-worked for the production of thebiggest and now the most famous

rodeo on any Indian Reservation.Edker H. Wilson of Sanford Colo-

children will be wasted on a use-less, unwanted school for the ‘artselite.’

"We are not giving up our fightfor education. We have friends inCongress and in the State admin-istration who will help us.

“Congress appropriated nearlyS2OO million for the Bureau of In-dian /Affairs for this fiscal year,most of it to go for education.Congress won’t like it if the tax-payers’ money is wasted on a schoollike the Institute of American In-dian Art, which the Indians don’tneed and don't want. We don’t likeit either.

“The All-Pueblo Council shouldhave complained sooner, but wedid not understand what was goingon. The Bureau never consultedthe Indians, and it was almost theend of the school year before werealized what was happening. Weasked the State Commission onIndian Affairs to make an investi-gation and give us a report, becausewe can always count on the Com-mission to help us.

“The report came out 'with theCommission’s June newsletter,which goes to Indian and Stateofficials in the Indian country'. TheAll-Pueblo Council read and dis-cussed the report, and held a meet-ing on June 6th, at which the reportwas approved by everybody, andthen we went to work.

“We will keep on working tohave the Tcind of education programwe need and which will do us somegood.

“This is all I have to say. Ifyou willprint this, the All-PuebloCouncil willthank you.”

Martin Vigil, ChairmanAll-Pueblo Council

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fine animals will be fielded for allevents. There will be the usualadded attractions to the regular

rodeo program that Includes theseveral horse races daily and thegirls’ barrel race events. Ihedaily starting time for this out-

standing rodeo show is at 1:00 p. m.,commencing with the Grand Entryof performers each day.

Posters and hand bills showingthe fees required for entry foreach of the big six-event rodeo

Top Officials ToHelp of DedicationOs Navajo Dam

Interior Secretary Stewart L.Udall and several State andNational Leaders will take part onSept. 15 in the dedication of NewMexico’s Navajo Dam, a $42million Colorado River StorageProject.

Udall, will deliver the dedicationspeech. He will be introduced bySenator Clinton P. Anderson. Theother members of New Mexico’sfour man congressional delegationplan to be on hand.

The huge dam is located 39miles northeasr of Farmington.

The dam, first Upper Coloradoproject to be completed, is builton a curve of the San Juan River,near the point where the San JuanRiver and Pine River join.

program have been distributed andposted for the information of Indiancowboys all over Navajoland and atother Indian Reservations. Thisinformation is also featured in thisissue of the “Times’’ in a full pagead.

It is being stressed as informa-tion for all participants that allentries for the six major rodeo

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