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Show THE COMING OF THE WHITEMEN 113 In the mid-nineteenth century, some Americans, like Agent Henry Linn Dodge, encouraged Navajo silversmiths. Later, after the People returned from the Long Walk, the art flourished. This photograph, taken in the winter of 1892-1893, shows silversmith Pesh lakai ilhini' (left) hammering silver. A fames Mooney photograph, courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives. importance at the time. The severe limits of the eastern boundary were far more important. This line began at the mouth of Gallegos Canyon on the San Juan and ran up the canyon to the divide betweeen the Colorado and Rio Grande drainages. The line then headed southwest to the source of the Zuni River, which it followed to the Little Colorado. The Navajos objected to this line, pointing out that it did not include many sacred places and other sites they often visited. When the governor gave them access to the Zuni Salt Lake and told them that the boundary did include the Carrizo Mountains, the Navajos reluctantly agreed to the new border. They also objected to the terms in the treaty requiring the tribe to give up all raiders. They pointed out the risk involved in capturing such men. Meriwether insisted on the point, though, and the Indians at last accepted it. In return for giving up large areas of their homeland, the tribe would get yearly payments, called "annuities." In the first years, the payments would be ten thousand dollars. Even this small amount, which was less than two dollars per person per year, would slowly decrease over the next twenty years. |