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Title: The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923 James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Foreign influences Indians of North America -- Health and hygiene
Publisher: Pasadena, Calif. : Radiant Life Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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of death!How comes it that this largess of the skyThy children lack of, till they droop and die r Many white people go out tenting in the summerand think they are sleeping out of doors. What afoolish error. Here is what a scientific authority saysupon the subject: Are you tenting.^ If so, you should know: That a well-closed tent is nearly air-tight, andconsequently,— That in an ordinary-sized tent, one occupant will 76 INDIAN AND SLEEPING OUT OF DOORS _^^mF^ fc ^^B 1 ^^^ -- .S*- i p$ :is^^^ _^;Mi mr^ A CHEAIEHIKM INDIAN AND HIS OUT-OF-DOOR SHELTER FROM THE SUN. SO pollute the air as to render it unfit to breathe in lessthan twenty minutes; two occupants, in less than tenminutes. That if you are tenting for your health, an open-ing at each end of the tent must be provided forventilation at night. The openings should be at leasta foot square for each occupant. Breathing impure air lowers the vitality, and con-sequently renders one susceptible to colds and otherdiseased conditions. T7
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CHAPTER VI THE INDIAN AS A WALKER, RIDER, ANDCLIMBER A S a part of his out-of-door life the Indian is a-^^- great walker and runner, having horses he is agreat rider, and living in a mountainous or canyonregion he is a great climber. The Indian walksthrough necessity, and also through delight and joy.He knows to the full the joy of mere living. A fewmiles walk, more or less, is nothing to him, and hedoes it so easily that one can see he enjoys it. In oneof my books * I tell the story of the running powers ofthe Hopi Indians of northern Arizona. It is worthquoting here: It is no uncommon thing for an Oraibi or Mashon-ganavi to run from his home to Moenkopi, a distanceof forty miles, over the hot blazing sands of a realAmerican Sahara, there hoe his corn-field, and returnto his home, within twenty-four hours. I once photo-graphed, the morning after his return, an old man whohad made this eighty-mile run, and he showed not theslightest trace of fatigue. For a dollar I have several times

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