Identifier: cu31924028656738 (find matches)
Title: American Indians : first families of the Southwest
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Huckel, John Frederick, 1863-1936 Harvey, Fred
Subjects: Indians of North America
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : F. Harvey
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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n 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 the Catholic church,which has since repaired the sanctuary and re-dedicated it. At one time it wasthe greatest mission in California. The Indians of the Mission San Luis Rey now number about a thousand andmany of them have formed other villages in the vicinity. Digitized by IVIicrosoft®
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0) <UJ u 0 ui O 0) z3 <z Q < — zo Ul0) Digitized by IVIicrosoft® The Supai, Who Live in Grand Canyon In the great kaleidoscopic chasm feebly termed The Grand Canyon, in asetting of ever changing blues and golds and purples, live the Havasupai, a smalltribe of Yuman stock and commonly known as the Supai. Their homes are oftwigs and poles covered with earth. In the days of buckskin their leather workwas of merit, but it was lost with the introduction of clothes from the white mansmills. They are sufficiently versed in agriculture to grow corn, melons and productson which they subsist in summer. In the winter, game from the surroundingmountains keeps them in food. There are about 150 of the Supai left in theirhighly colored little valley and they have been steadily declining in numbers. Basket making is the art of the women of the Supai. In other days theSupai were extravagantly addicted to the use of cosmetics. Both men and womencovered their faces with smooth coatings of re

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