[Transcriber’s Note: Italicized text delimited by underscores. This project uses utf-8 encoded characters. If some characters are not readable, check your settings of your browser to ensure you have a default font installed that can display utf-8 characters.] WHAT THE WHITE RACE MAY LEARN FROM THE INDIAN BOOKS BY GEORGE WHARTON JAMES What the White Race May Learn from the Indian. In and Around the Grand Canyon. Indians of the Painted Desert Region. In and Out of the Old Missions of California. The Wonders of the Colorado Desert. The Story of Scraggles. Indian Basketry. How to Make Indian and Other Baskets. Travelers’ Handbook to Southern California. The Beacon Light. [Illustration: GROUP OF HOPI MAIDENS AND AN OLD MAN AT MASHONGANAVI.] What the White Race May Learn from the Indian BY GEORGE WHARTON JAMES AUTHOR OF “IN AND AROUND THE GRAND CANYON,” “INDIAN BASKETRY,” “HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS,” “PRACTICAL BASKET MAKING,” “THE INDIANS OF THE PAINTED DESERT REGION,” “TRAVELERS’ HANDBOOK TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,” “IN AND OUT OF THE OLD MISSIONS OF CALIFORNIA,” “THE STORY OF SCRAGGLES,” “THE WONDERS OF THE COLORADO DESERT,” “THROUGH RAMONA’S COUNTRY,” “LIVING THE RADIANT LIFE,” “THE BEACON LIGHT,” ETC. [Illustration] CHICAGO FORBES & COMPANY 1908 COPYRIGHT, 1908 BY EDITH E. FARNSWORTH The Lakeside Press R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY CHICAGO [Illustration: WHAT THE WHITE RACE MAY LEARN FROM THE INDIAN] FOREWORD I would not have it thought that I commend indiscriminately everything that the Indian does and is. There are scores of things about the Indian that are reprehensible and to be avoided. Most Indians smoke, and to me the habit is a vile and nauseating one. Indians often wear filthy clothes. They are often coarse in their acts, words, and their humor. Some of their habits are repulsive. I have seen Indian boys and men maltreat helpless animals until my blood has boiled with an indignation I could not suppress, and I have taken the animals away from them. They are generally vindictive and relentless in pursuit of their enemies. They often content themselves with impure and filthy water when a little careful labor would give them a supply of fairly good water.