Identifier: secretsof00jameindiansrich (find matches)
Title: The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923 James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Foreign influences Indians of North America -- Health and hygiene
Publisher: Pasadena, Calif. : Radiant Life Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t by,smoking, and doing nothing, she looks at me invacant amazement. Once when I was talking in thisway one of them said: Are your white women allfools .^ Tell them we not only dont need their pity,but we despise them for their habits of life that leadthem to pity us. The Creator made us with thecapacity and power for work. He knows that all be-ings must work, if they would be healthy. We wouldbe healthy, and therefore we do His will in workingat our appointed tasks. We are glad and proud todo them. And as for the men: let them dare to in-terfere in our work and they will soon see what theywill see. We brook no interference or help fromthem. So their children (girls as well as boys) are all 111 LABOR FOR (ilRLS AND WOMEN brought np from tlie earliest years to work, and to workliard. Boys are sent out to herd sheep, horses, andcattle; to watch the corn and see that nothing disturbsit. And the girls, as soon as they can toddle, becomelittle mothers to their younger brothers and sisters.
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HOPI WOMEN BUILDING A HOUSE AT ORAIBI, ARIZONA. As they grow older they grind all the corn, gatherall the wild grass and other seeds, make all the basketryand pottery, and prepare all the food for the household.To grind corn in the Indian fashion, with flat rockand metate, is no easy task for a strong man of thewhite race, yet I have known a girl of fifteen to keep 112 LABOR FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN at work at the metate for ten hours a day for severaldays in succession, in order that there might be plentyof flour when guests came to the Snake Dance. On one of my visits to the Hopi village of OraibiI found the women at work building a house. Thisis their occupation. All labor among Hopis is dividedbetween the sexes in accordance with long-establishedcustom, and I think it is so divided in all aboriginalpeoples. The men undertook the protection of thehome (were the warriors) and the hunting of animalsfor food. They also make the robes and moccasins.Those tribes that lost their nomad charact

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