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Show JONES PAGE 27 speaking of the one's that aren't educated. They cone off th~ reservation and get a job, and there's a lot of them that do it, too. There are really quite a few of them that go out and get good jobs. They can. They're physically able. They're robust, and they're strong, muscular, and they can work. A lot of them will work. But they're still influenced to quite an extent by the old culture of taking off from their job, or anywhere, and going to what we call a squaw dance, or a ceremonial of some kind, and that's been their hig trouble. They just can't stay on the job and, you know, do satisfactory service because they have to go back home, back to their culture, and so on. And when they get back, why, when they get back there, why, then it's hard for them. KB.: To come back again? AJ: To get back when they're suppose to and get on the job. And, of course, they have quite a hard time keeping a job on that account. KB: Do you think it's any better if they're working mines or in mills that are on the reservation? Do you think that that helps at all? AJ: Yes, there was some mines in the old Jato area that belonged to individual Navajos, just like if one of Calvin's claims would have developed into something good, you know, and if they'd have got to producing ore out of one of those claims, why, Calvin would have-it would have been possible for him to have gotten a thousand dollars a month, or something like that, you know, in royalty, off |
