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Show friendly faction. While Yu ke o ma was spitting defiance at the Gov-ernment and calling for the head of his victorious foeman, the latter was proving his greater intelligence and worldly wisdom by accepting the inevitable with as good grace as the rather trying imposition upon himself would permit. The idea of going to school at the age of thirty-odd years was not attractive, naturally, to Ta wa quap te wa; but he promptly set his followers an example of confidence in the Government, merely asking the privilege of taking his wife and family with him and retaining his Indian costume and long hair. This request I granted the instant it was submitted to me, although, as far as I am aware, the concession was unique in the annals of our school service. Frank Se wen imp te wa, the prospective governor of the Moencopi Hopis, who had got himself involved in the turmoil at Oraibi although it was none of hisbusiness, was granted a similar privilege, and both men chose the training school at Riverside, Cal., for their alma -mater. It required some overhauling of the local arrangements and some revision of the rules to accommodate this oddly assorted party; but Superintendent Hall showed no symptoms of panic at the prospect of the innovation, and, as usual, proved hi-self equal to the emergency. Quarters were prepared, and in a little while the visiting public were treated to tlie unnsual spectacle of two Indian chiefs and their entire families gathered in an institution of learning to prepare them for treading together the road to civilization. The wisdom of sending these families to school was confirmed at once. Within a few days after his arrival at Eiverside, Ta wa quap te wa voluntarily presented himself to be shorn of his braids, and aslced for a hat and a uniform like those which the other pupils wore. About twenty of the friendly children had been sent by their parents to Riverside with the chief; and a few weeks ago I gave the superin-tendent authority to let him return to Oraibi as a recruiting agent for the school. How well he is getting on with his studies is evi-. denced by the fact that he can write letters home; and when I was at the school in June he sought me out and exchanged a few sentences of conversation with me in very intelligible English. During the summer vacation he has found employment on one of the fruit farms near Riverside at first-class wages; and the last I heard of him he was inquiring the price of a second-hand bicycle, having in mind the saving of time he could accomplish by riding to and fromhis work every day. And this is the Indian whom I described in my last year's report as shadowing me down the mesa trail after my starlight council with the hostiles of the pueblo, and holding a midnight conference with me at my quarters, with the necessary aid of an interpreter! Yet Ta wa quap te wa's path has not been wholly.thornless, even since he adopted the new order so completely. After reaching Xiver-side he of course continued to feel an interest in home affairs; it |