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Show BEPOBT OF THE C O ~ ~ I O N EOFB I NDIB~TB PFUBS. 85 the day school at Oraibi as soon as practicable, and to see that all children living in or near the pueblo were placed in school, the parents having the privilege of choice as between the day school, the boarding ' school at Feams Canon, and any others open to Hopi children. Meanwhile, on my personal knowledge of the nature and attitude of the Hopis obtained during ten years' acquaintance with them in their own country, confirmed or modified by consultation with a number of other persons on the ground who were familiar with the Hopis and cognizant of the facts in the Oraibi affair, I formulated a programme to be pursued, with such minor ehanges in detail as cur, rent developments might render expedient. This programme was discussed with the President and the Secretary of the Interior, and carried into effect with their approval. Its chief features may be set forth seriatim thus: (1) That the Shimopovl intruders, who appear to have stirred up all the latest trouble, who never had any rights in the Oraibi puebio, and who by ahnslng them have forfeited even the prlvileges of courtesy, be ordered to return to their own pueblo instantly; (2) That the Oraibi hostiles, except the chief agitators Yn ke o ma and Ta wa hong ni wa, be permitted to return for the winter to Oraibi, on their pledge of peaceable conduct, and a like pledge to be exacted from the friendlies that they shall he kindly treated; this to he understood as only a temporary arrangement to prevent suffering during the approaching winter, as the rest of the programme will he worked out by the Government before spring; (3) That Yu ke o ma and Ta wa hong ni wa he allowed to take their personal effects from Oraibi, including the season's crops, and to give these to their families for subsistence; but themselves to be notified that, as disturbers and inciters of their people to resistance of the Government, they must leave the Hopi country at once; their refusal, or their return after removal, to he punished by imprisonment at hard labor ; (4) That the ringleaders in the riots at Shimopovi early in the last school year be removed under arrest and confined in a military prison at hard labor, for such terms, in no case less than one year, as their respective offenses seem to justify ; (5) That in announcing to Yu ke 0 ma the decree of the Govirnment in his case he he reminded that I reasoned earnestly with him last summer at the night councii on the Oraihi plaza, and tried in a friendly way to show him the folly of his course, and'that his only response wasan Insolent defiance; and that, In now turning for help to the same Government which he has always scoffed at, derided, and urged his people to resist, he is playing the part of a coward Instead of a manly foe; ( 6 ) That any other persons besides the two hostile chief agitators already mentioned by name, and the ringleaders In the Shimopovi riots, nho may, on later investigation by the Indian Office, be convicted of habitual trouble-making, be Imprisoned or banished;, (7) That Ta wa quap te wa, the chief of the friendly faction, he allowed to retain his prles$ly orders, but be deposed from his political chiefship until he hae fitted himself, by acquiring enough knowledge of English to be able to speak and understand fairly the language of the Government of our country and the laws, for the instruction and guyance of the people he aspires.to role; and |