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LavgHIiNG Boy 47 == the trader from Tséchil, and an unknown Sz ziosupported between them a badly wounded === who swore slowly and steadily. Behind them 1 _:wa supported another American official, who ~-=v set the wounded men down by the hand- Jit Nav ajo, the Tewa lined up beside his fellow —=esman, and Thin American came to talk with == :=clal. After a minute of discussion, he inter- =—=-=2 to Tall Old One. Tz: headman stepped forward. —:zr me, my friends. You know how bad it is = =x whiskey, how it makes you crazy. You + now Washindon has forbidden it. Now the ~ -z===can here, this man whom you have seen = _zztin, came here to sell it. That Navajo’ — = zoiznted to the handcuffed one — ‘came with =— That was bad. So American Chief sent ===: Americans and policemen to stop it.’ =z z2 talked, Thin American translated to the

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m= over there by the tree. See what it did for == ‘When we started to arrest them, he began = =22t. He killed that Hopi you see back there.’ Xi was a Hopi killed. There were more | Si N:w he and this man, the one who helped to